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Problems with resolution and monitor

Asked by José Antonio Rey

I have an Intel 82845G/GL video card. When I installed 10.10, I had this problem, and solved it creating and editing xorg.conf. Then, when I upgraded to 11.04, this problem appeared again, but now xorg.conf only makes my screen go blank. I've tried a lot of things, obtaining no results.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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José Antonio Rey (jose) said : 		#2

The output of that command is here: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/601767/

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

joseeantonior@Jose-Antonio:~$ sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a
[sudo] password for joseeantonior:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:ff680000-ff6fffff
LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
Linux Jose-Antonio 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Pastebins eventually expire, please keep replies on here

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

You may benefit from the Xorg edgers ppa, those chips are notoriously touchy especially with timings and are a real pain.

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José Antonio Rey (jose) said : 		#6

Yes, I've noticed that since 10.10. What is the link to the repositories?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

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José Antonio Rey (jose) said : 		#8

I should update and then upgrade the distro, right?

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José Antonio Rey (jose) said : 		#9

Updated from the PPA, with no results.

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José Antonio Rey (jose) said : 		#10

My problem is solved. Just needed some more tweaking on the xorg.conf file.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#11

I'd backup the file for future installs. Glad you got the gold =)