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Stythys

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Registered: 2008-05-18

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Stuck at 800x600

Hey. My screen res is stuck at 800x600. How do I fix this?

here's my xorg.conf

http://pastebin.com/m5baddc85

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dawn

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Registered: 2008-01-15

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

Have you tried installing a driver for you graphics card?

Stythys

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

yeah I installed the intel drivers in the package 'xf86-video-intel'

maybe I didn't define the driver correctly in the xorg.conf? I thought I did..

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Dheart

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

Uncomment dri and the last three lines...
Also add more resolutions to your xorg.conf.

Last edited by Dheart (2008-05-18 18:31:41)

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Stythys

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

didn't seem to help =/

updated xorg.conf: http://pastebin.com/m473b42a1

Last edited by Stythys (2008-05-18 18:46:50)

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Stythys

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

any other ideas? =/

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elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

Have you tried it without an xorg.conf? If that works, create a new one with 'X -configure' as root then tweak from there if needed.

Stythys

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

haha, yep. just deleted the thing and everything works fine

oh and btw, I get this error message every startup saying gnome-screensaver has crashed. anyway to just remove that from startup since I don't really care about my screensaver?

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lynnevan

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

Stythys,

I've got the same problem w/ the screensaver.  Had to uninstall it.  And 'cheese' crashes too.    Believe I used the same driver you did, because the 'i810' wouldn't give me better than 800x600 resolution.  Have stability problems graphics and 100% CPU usage sometimes.  Just posted here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48870.

As I understand it, you deleted xorg.conf?  And it worked w/o doing anything else?

Are you running Gnome or Kde or what?

thanks,

lynnevan

Stythys

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

btw, about the screensaver, I fixed it. You need to add some daemons to your rc.conf after you install gnome to get it to run correctly. And yeah, I just deleted my xorg.conf and everything seems to work fine.

well, my compiz-fusion slows down my computer alot...basically it's unusable, but it works fine in my other distros. working on that now =P

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Stythys

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Re: Stuck at 800x600

ok, well I went here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg

and compiling my xorg.conf with the 'hwd' option seems to work fine. still having compiz issues tho =/

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