Yes, you read that right.
Just today, I offered to upgrade my mom's computer, which had been running
Trisquel 6, to Trisquel 7. The installation went smoothly, but there's one
serious problem:
The resolution is stuck, not at 1024x768 or something like that, but at
640x480. Insane. This resolution isn't even really usable, so many things
just don't fit into such a tiny display size. The monitor is actually capable
of 1280x1024, but I'd be happy just getting her back to 1024x768.
Just to make sure this doesn't fix it, I upgrated Linux with the
linux-generic-lts-xenial package. That didn't help.
So then I tried to search for "ubuntu 640x480" to see if someone has
experienced this with Ubuntu 14.04, and they have. The only problem is that
the proposed "solution" is to install a proprietary driver. That's no good.
For reference, my mom's computer is some sort of custom-built computer
(bought second-hand) containing an Intel Pentium 4, with an integrated ATI
graphics controller (this is from back before Intel had its own integrated
graphics controllers). The ATI graphics controller has always caused
problems, but this is the first time I've seen it cause the resolution to be
forced so low.
Can anyone help me find a solution to get her computer's resolution back to
something reasonable? I don't have physical access to the computer, so I'll
need to tell her exactly what to do; because of this, I'd like to just tell
her what command(s) to type into the terminal. The solution doesn't have to
work for all users because this is effectively a single-user machine (she's
the only one who uses it).
