Re: Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr

From	Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr
Date	2017-02-05 18:20 +0100
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Tony Baldwin composed on 2017-02-05 09:55 (UTC-0500):

> Oddly, a reboot with no other action on my part... (Ok, I DID C-A-F5 to
> a tty and did Xorg -configure a couple of times, but each time produced
> errors nothing seemingly encouraging at all)

Xorg -configure is obsolete. Nothing in the xorg.conf.new it produces is 
anything running Xorg normally won't do automatically, other than writing 
useless config info to the file xorg.conf.new.

> seems to have returned me to my original, beautiful 1680x1050 resolution.

Your log showed Xorg was using the VESA driver, which is incapable of using your 
Asus VW224's native 1680x1050 resolution. Obviously something happened to result 
in either the ati or the modesetting Xorg driver being used by your Radeon HD 
6530D instead of VESA.

> TL;DR: A reboot fixed me...I almost feel I've been jettisoned into
> Windows-Land?!

It can happen. Maybe some automatic dpkg reconfiguration process that never 
finished was triggered to be finished by a reboot.
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Set resolution options without xrandr Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-02-05 04:00 +0100
  Re: Set resolution options without xrandr John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-02-05 05:30 +0100
    Re: Set resolution options without xrandr Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 06:10 +0100
  Re: Set resolution options without xrandr Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-05 06:00 +0100
    Re: Set resolution options without xrandr Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-02-05 15:20 +0100
      Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-02-05 16:00 +0100
        Re: Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-05 16:30 +0100
          Re: Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2017-02-07 01:50 +0100
        Re: Magickally Resolved?: Set resolution options without xrandr Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-05 18:20 +0100

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