On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Christopher Sawtell <csawt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 June 2010 19:17, Nick Rout <nick.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:54 PM, chris <che...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Greetings Clugers, >>> I am hopeful someone on the list can assist me with this issue. >>> >>> Hardware HP Workstation P4 >>> Video Card Sapphire Radeon x300se >>> Viewsonic led Monitor native resolution 1600x1200 >>> >>> Under Ubuntu 8.04 I had no graphics issues at all, running the ati >>> radeon opensource driver resolution 1600x1200. >>> >>> Since I Upgraded to 10.4 I can only get 1200x1048 on the Viewsonic >>> monitor. >>> >>> However If I plug in my old Sony I can choose 1600x1200. >>> >>> I spent hours reconfiguring xorg reading the man pages for xorg, and >>> xrandr, all to no avail. >>> Also googled extensively with out any workable answers >>> Any help greatly appreciated >> >> most of the X ugliness is revealed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log >> > > http://amlc.berlios.de/ > > It just works.
IME not always. In fact there must be a change in X if it is not working now and did in a previous edition. Look for the wrong/non existent edid in the log file.
