Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:05:06PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:03:28 Thomas H. George wrote: A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to F9. My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday (16 Jun 10)

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: You should upgrade to 2.6.32-5-amd64. Hopefully that is enough to fix the problem. Upgrade failed.

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-18 17:16 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... Logical sector size (15624 bytes) is not a multiple of the physical sector size.

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:01:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-18 17:16 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... Logical sector size

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-18 20:20 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:01:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Please run dosfslabel on your DOS partition. Never knew we had such a command. Checked the man page an ran it for /dev/hda1, the dos partition. The response was NO NAME. Tried

dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Thomas H. George
A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to F9. My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday (16 Jun 10) I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system was shutdown overnight. When rebooted this morning the X window was at

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread James Allsopp
Check your HorizSync and VertRefresh values in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It's probably just set values that are woefully low to be on the safe side. Jim On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display resolution is stuck at

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
fixing the quoting... On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to F9. My system is

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:09:57AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: fixing the quoting... On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-17 20:54 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: The content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log is: X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian Current Operating System: Linux dragon 2.6.32-3-amd64 #1 SMP

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-17 20:54 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: The content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log is: X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:03:28 Thomas H. George wrote: A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to F9. My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday (16 Jun 10) I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system was

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: You should upgrade to 2.6.32-5-amd64. Hopefully that is enough to fix the problem. Upgrade failed. linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 depends on linux-base-2.6.32-15 and installation