dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[maybeway36]

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dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

never asks you for your resolution or driver anymore in lenny or sid (or Ubuntu hardy.) Now I really am lost as to how to get my screen to 1024x768.
Whose idea was it to change Xorg to behave this way? Will it be changed back anytime soon?

[markharding557]

you can set your resolution by editing xorg.conf.
there will be a section which contains available resolutions,put your prefered one first in the list so this should load at start up.
the file to edit is here

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Lou]

maybeway36: Hey, i'm with you pal!

There was a good thread discussing this, but i can't find it.

IIRC, you should try:

# xrandr -s 1024x768

PS: i found it:
viewtopic.php?t=26577

[glf2818]

maybeway36
Install grandr. You can easily change resolution. X is ignoring your screen mode lines now.
George

[vvokong]

i also find this problem when i reinstall lenny today, but it was ok about one week ago, there must be something wrong, i think.

now "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" can only configure keyboard, leaving other sections empty.

my xorg.conf looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

[Bulkley]

There was a good thread discussing this, but i can't find it.

Try http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=26786&highlight=

Xorg has made some changes. Documentation hasn't kept up; at least, I haven't been able to find it.

[Issyer]

The command

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dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

never asks you for your resolution or driver anymore in lenny or sid (or Ubuntu hardy.) Now I really am lost as to how to get my screen to 1024x768.
Whose idea was it to change Xorg to behave this way? Will it be changed back anytime soon?

I think, it's a bug. It happened to me with amd64. I didn't try to fix anything but Lavene said that manual editing xorg.conf should be OK.

[rickh]

It's not a bug, it's a feature, and the most cursory look thru these forums will offer plenty of discussions about it.

[Issyer]

It's not a bug, it's a feature, and the most cursory look thru these forums will offer plenty of discussions about it.

How can it be a feature if the fields in the xorg.conf are blank, and there's no way to edit them except manually? If it is feature, it is a weird feature.

[swirling_vortex]

It's not a bug, it's a feature, and the most cursory look thru these forums will offer plenty of discussions about it.

How can it be a feature if the fields in the xorg.conf are blank, and there's no way to edit them except manually? If it is feature, it is a weird feature.

It's supposed to be a more automated setup so that you shouldn't have to touch the xorg.conf file. However, as we're finding out, this "feature" is having some growing pains.

If you use the latest fglrx or nvidia driver, their xorg.conf generating tools have been adjusted to accommodate the newest version of X.

[Issyer]

If you use the latest fglrx or nvidia driver, their xorg.conf generating tools have been adjusted to accommodate the newest version of X.

Sure I am using. The trick is that nvidia is unsupported on Lenny at all.

[imneo]

Here is your answer:

scripts-net.com

hope it will work for you.