From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnAV9-00010h-74 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:17:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27BD8E088B; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03168E088B for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B15167165 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:17:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.918 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.918 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.938, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=0.619] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id K46k0vRx6dkh for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD6667144 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:17:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MnAUr-0002kd-6J for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:17:29 +0200 Received: from athedsl-387599.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.66.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:17:29 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-387599.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:17:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:17:09 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20090913205928.5154bf74@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20090914072238.350aa15f@osage.osagesoftware.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-387599.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090826 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: <20090914072238.350aa15f@osage.osagesoftware.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c0ab3a00-97ba-4fed-9786-2557357ddc79 X-Archives-Hash: 5b8b5b5fc8d8ea3330f161e3a21bbf71 On 09/14/2009 02:22 PM, David Relson wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:57:41 +0300 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > ...[snip]... > >>> Several obvious questions arise: >>> >>> _Why_ did X select a different resolution today? >>> _How_ can I get to the higher resolution? >>> _What_ can I do to prevent a recurrence of this problem? >> >> Don't know about 1 and 3, but you can change resolution by simply >> right-clicking on your desktop in most DEs and in the settings there >> select a resolution. > > Gnome's right click doesn't offer any system setting choices. From the > start menu, System//Preferences//ScreenResolution offers choices, but > only up to 1024x768. There's no sign of the 1280x1024 that had been in > use :-< Now that I looked closer, you are using an ancient version of ati-drivers (8.552-r2). What is your card? If it's an HD2xxx or higher, please try updating to ati-drivers-9.9 or 8.660 (this one is actually newer than 9.9 but it's an Ubuntu release and masked). If your card is not an HD-series card (that means X1xxx and older), you might have better luck switching to the open source drivers instead.