Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-18 20:20 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:01:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Please run dosfslabel on your DOS partition. >> > Never knew we had such a command. Checked the man page an ran it for > /dev/hda1, the dos partition. The response was NO NAME.

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:01:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-18 17:16 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> > >> > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... > >> > Lo

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-18 17:16 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: >> >> > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... >> > Logical sector size (15624 bytes) is not a multiple of the physical sector >>

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:10:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > >> You should upgrade to 2.6.32-5-amd64. Hopefully that is enough to fix > >> the problem. > > > > Upgrade fa

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:05:06PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:03:28 Thomas H. George wrote: > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to > > F9. > > > > My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-17 23:43 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> You should upgrade to 2.6.32-5-amd64. Hopefully that is enough to fix >> the problem. > > Upgrade failed. linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 depends on > linux-base-2.6.32-15 and instal

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:03:28 Thomas H. George wrote: > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to > F9. > > My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday (16 Jun 10) I ran apt-get update > and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system was

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-17 20:54 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > The content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log is: > > > > > > X.Org X Server 1.7.7 > > Release Date: 2010-05-04 > > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-17 20:54 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > The content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log is: > > > X.Org X Server 1.7.7 > Release Date: 2010-05-04 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian > Current Operating System: Linux dragon 2.6.32-3-amd64

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:09:57AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > fixing the quoting... > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > > On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > > > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > > > > > The display resol

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
fixing the quoting... On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to > > F9. > > > > My system is Debia

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread James Allsopp
Check your HorizSync and VertRefresh values in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It's probably just set values that are woefully low to be on the safe side. Jim On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George wrote: > > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: > > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X wi

dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Thomas H. George
A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to F9. My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday (16 Jun 10) I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system was shutdown overnight. When rebooted this morning the X window was at