[Cialug] fix resolution and refresh on Xubuntu

[Matthew Nuzum]

P.S. I've heard Ubuntu 9.10 is faster and uses less resources than Xubuntu
9.10. You may want to consider switching to that. You can't install from CD
w/ only 128MB but you can certainly install w/ the alternate installer and
dist-upgrade and run Ubuntu fine.

2010/1/7 newz <newz at bearfruit.org>

> There is a known problem with older Intel video chips. I looked at the
> release notes for 9.10 and 9.04 and don't see an exact description of your
> problem but I know the driver arch changed for intel cards and there were
> regressions during the alphas.
>
> If you have an intel card (before the 945 era) you may want to investigate
> this.
>
> Send more details and I can try to help you futher.
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm running Xubuntu on an old HP Omnibook - 1ghz p3 & 128MB or RAM. Last
>> time I did a distribution upgrade to 9.10, it screwed up my screen
>> resolution (only can get 800x600 on an LCD that only likes 1024x768), and in
>> the course of tryig to fix it, I made it worse so now even the external
>> monitor can't handle the refresh rate I set it to (don't know what it was)
>>
>> To further my troubles, this thing won't boot from USB (yes, I updated the
>> BOIS to the newest version), and the optical drive is pretty much dead.  I
>> have a pxe server that I've been trying to get it to boot from, but I'm not
>> having much luck there.
>>
>> What I CAN do is get to the recover console/menu with network/internet
>> access. I tried the option for "repair broken packages" - didn't seem to do
>> anything except go update my packages, which did nothting. can get to a
>> command prompt from here, but I can't find any way to configure x outside of
>> xwindows.  Most of the stuff I'm finding from google tells me to do a
>> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I type that, and it just brings me back to
>> another prompt with no errors.
>>
>> I want to know how to do is go through some kind of screen
>> resolution/refresh wizard that will let me fix my settings.
>>
>> Also, I tried editing the xorg.conf manually, but most of the stuff is
>> commented out saying:
>> Commented out by update-manager, HAL is used now.
>>
>> and I don't see any screen resolutions listed there like I'm used to
>> seeing.  Who wants to try and help?
>>
>> Tim Champion
>> timchampion at gmail.com
>>
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