Re: Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-06 Thread Steven Mainor
I think he just meant 'In case you didn't want to read my previous paragraph, a reboot fixed it.' On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 10:26 -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, February 05, 2017 09:55:14 AM Tony Baldwin wrote: > > TL;DR: A reboot fixed me...I almost feel I've been jettisoned into >

Re: Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-05 Thread Felix Miata
Tony Baldwin composed on 2017-02-05 09:55 (UTC-0500): Oddly, a reboot with no other action on my part... (Ok, I DID C-A-F5 to a tty and did Xorg -configure a couple of times, but each time produced errors nothing seemingly encouraging at all) Xorg -configure is obsolete. Nothing in the

Re: Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-05 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, February 05, 2017 09:55:14 AM Tony Baldwin wrote: > TL;DR: A reboot fixed me...I almost feel I've been jettisoned into > Windows-Land?! Just for me, what was so long that you didn't read?

Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
Oddly, a reboot with no other action on my part... (Ok, I DID C-A-F5 to a tty and did Xorg -configure a couple of times, but each time produced errors nothing seemingly encouraging at all) seems to have returned me to my original, beautiful 1680x1050 resolution. TL;DR: A reboot fixed me...I

Re: Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 02/04/2017 11:59 PM, Felix Miata wrote: 'lspci -nnk | grep -A6 VGA', and/or 'inxi -c0 -v6 | head -n20 This just gave me errors, however, lspci | grep -i VGA gave me: 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6530D] Xorg log pasted

Re: Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/04/2017 11:28 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tony writes: In the past, of course I'd have dug up /etc/X11/xorg.conf with vi, and edited it, but there is no such file on this system (Jessie). Create one. + ...and which video card do you have?? Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to

Re: Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-04 Thread Felix Miata
Tony Baldwin composed on 2017-02-04 21:55 (UTC-0500): In the past, of course I'd have dug up /etc/X11/xorg.conf with vi, and edited it, but there is no such file on this system (Jessie). /etc/X11/xorg.conf became an optional file many releases ago. It usually can be created and used to

Re: Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-04 Thread John Hasler
Tony writes: > In the past, of course I'd have dug up /etc/X11/xorg.conf with vi, and > edited it, but there is no such file on this system (Jessie). Create one. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Set resolution options without xrandr

2017-02-04 Thread Tony Baldwin
In the past, of course I'd have dug up /etc/X11/xorg.conf with vi, and edited it, but there is no such file on this system (Jessie). I've been trying to use xrandr, but I'm clearly missing something that the instructions I'm finding on superuser isn't giving me.