Bug#493134: xserver-xorg-video-ati: no resolution higher than 640x480 possible

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 17:57:10 +0200, Eike Nicklas wrote:
>
>> On a fresh Lenny installation, the xserver starts with a resolution of
>> only 640x480. Manually adding other modes to xorg.conf has no effect.
>> Etch does not have this problem, but using the xorg.conf file from Etch
>> does not fix this on Lenny. This happens both on i386 and amd64.
>>
>> xorg.conf and xorg log are attached.
>>
>> Please re-assign to xorg if this is not ati-specific. I don't know much
>> about xorg :-(, so please let me know if you need more information or can
>> point me to the right direction.

Is this a laptop or a desktop machine?  If it's a desktop machine, it
shouldn't have lvds at all and we may need a quirk.

Alex