[Cialug] fix resolution and refresh on Xubuntu

[Tim Champion]

lspci says Display Controller: Intel 82830 CGC

All the suggestions to install this and that distribution instead are pretty
moot, as I don't have a functional optical drive, and I can't boot from USB.
I installed xubuntu on this a year or 2 ago before the optical drive died.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> P.S. I've heard Ubuntu 9.10 is faster and uses less resources than Xubuntu
> 9.10. You may want to consider switching to that. You can't install from CD
> w/ only 128MB but you can certainly install w/ the alternate installer and
> dist-upgrade and run Ubuntu fine.
>
> 2010/1/7 newz <newz at bearfruit.org>
>
>> There is a known problem with older Intel video chips. I looked at the
>> release notes for 9.10 and 9.04 and don't see an exact description of your
>> problem but I know the driver arch changed for intel cards and there were
>> regressions during the alphas.
>>
>>
>> If you have an intel card (before the 945 era) you may want to investigate
>> this.
>>
>> Send more details and I can try to help you futher.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running Xubuntu on an old HP Omnibook - 1ghz p3 & 128MB or RAM. Last
>>> time I did a distribution upgrade to 9.10, it screwed up my screen
>>> resolution (only can get 800x600 on an LCD that only likes 1024x768), and in
>>> the course of tryig to fix it, I made it worse so now even the external
>>> monitor can't handle the refresh rate I set it to (don't know what it was)
>>>
>>> To further my troubles, this thing won't boot from USB (yes, I updated
>>> the BOIS to the newest version), and the optical drive is pretty much dead.
>>> I have a pxe server that I've been trying to get it to boot from, but I'm
>>> not having much luck there.
>>>
>>> What I CAN do is get to the recover console/menu with network/internet
>>> access. I tried the option for "repair broken packages" - didn't seem to do
>>> anything except go update my packages, which did nothting. can get to a
>>> command prompt from here, but I can't find any way to configure x outside of
>>> xwindows.  Most of the stuff I'm finding from google tells me to do a
>>> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I type that, and it just brings me back to
>>> another prompt with no errors.
>>>
>>> I want to know how to do is go through some kind of screen
>>> resolution/refresh wizard that will let me fix my settings.
>>>
>>> Also, I tried editing the xorg.conf manually, but most of the stuff is
>>> commented out saying:
>>> Commented out by update-manager, HAL is used now.
>>>
>>> and I don't see any screen resolutions listed there like I'm used to
>>> seeing.  Who wants to try and help?
>>>
>>> Tim Champion
>>> timchampion at gmail.com
>>>
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