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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

Screen resolution reduced

Asked by Odell Vining

Thank you for your consideration to help with my screen resolution problem. Yesterday, after several months of working properly, Ubuntu 10.04 adjusted my screen resolution from 1680x1050 to 1024x768. After roughly 12 hours of reading support and attempting to troubleshoot, I have been able only to increase resolution to 1360x768. Nothing has resolved the issue completely and I simply don't know enough to make it right.

I've gone the System>Preference>Monitor route, as well as installing Startup-Manager, reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04, and typing lots of things I don't actually understand into the Terminal. I'm running a HP 2.5 Ghz dual core with 6gb or RAM and an integrated Intel video card. I'm open to any suggestions the community might have. Thank you.

OGV

UPDATE:
I'm afraid I don't understand the first part of the recommendation, so I tried the recover mode option and atempted to run the mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf/etc/X11/xorg.conf_old command

I don't know what happened but the computer may not be loading know - I can't tell. The monitor says it is hibernating and goes to sleep. I turn in on again and the same thing. I can't get to anything. Any advise?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

The CPU and RAM are completely useless here, all we need is your video chip which you haven't told us

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Odell Vining (odellv) said : 		#2

actionparsnip,

No problem. Here's what is provided.

 description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:fe900000-fe97ffff ioport:b080(size=8) memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:fe800000-fe8fffff
mary@mary-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C display
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:fe900000-fe97ffff ioport:b080(size=8) memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:fe800000-fe8fffff

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

There are some xorg.conf files here. Sniff around the web to try and find some other sample files if they are bad. If you do not get an x server, reboot and hold shift, you will then select recovery mode then select root. You can then run:

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_old

Then reboot

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