OK, here's a herd 5 update: LiveCD, as well as initial install gave me 1024x768. xorg.conf is attached. At a suggestion I read on another (nv, but similar) bug report, I switched to a text console, logged in as root, ran dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, then rebooted. It came up in the proper 1280x800 resolution, and it even detected the touchpad. However, it didn't detect the radeon chip, but rather called it a 'generic video card', but that doesn't seem to matter, it's only an identifier, the driver and busid values are the same, and it works! Then, I saved that xorg.conf by renaming it, and restarted X as you suggested to let it do its own detection. It appears that the resolution is finer than 1024x768, but I don't think its 1280x800. X didn't create an xorg.conf, and the system settings/monitor&display applet refuses to launch. Also, the synaptic touchpad wasn't detected, so I'm back to no Vscroll area.
** Attachment added: "original xorg.conf from herd5 install" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6634491/xorg.conf.20070305123956 -- Wrong resolution on initial install - Radeon 9600 Laptop LCD https://launchpad.net/bugs/89289 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
