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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xorg
  
  Release of Ubuntu: 9.04
  
  I performed a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 of an HP Vectra VL, PIII,
  550MHz, 0.5GB RAM, integrated Matrox video controller machine. The
  install seemed to go on with no problems. Upon first reboot the Ubuntu
  splash screen came up and the progress bar went to about 95%. The screen
  would then blank out as it prepared to go into X. However, the server
  could never find a usable monitor resolution. After trying several a
  dialog box came up saying that Ubuntu was in low resolution mode and it
  gave several options to try to fix this.
  
  I performed the following to try to fix the issue:
  
  • Reinstall gdm.
  • Reinstall xorg.
  • Determine driver of video card - mga - and edit xorg.conf to include that.
  • Tried vesa driver.
  • Edited xorg.conf (several times) to try to give it specific modes to try. Xorg.conf, originally, simply had empty "placeholder" sections for all things.
  • Took splash screen out of boot process.
  
  Nothing would change the behavior of gdm. However, if I stopped gdm and
  invoked startx from the command line X would come up with no problem at
  an 800x600 resolution.
  
  I then tried to do a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS to see if that
  would work. It did. Smooth as silk, on first reboot, right out of the
  (alt) CD. The box is currently running 8.04.2
+ 
+ [lspci]
+ 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge [8086:7190] (rev 03)
+     	Subsystem: Cirrus Logic Device [1013:4280]
+ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP [102b:0521] (rev 03)
+     	Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Device [102b:ff00]

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Xorg Cannot Determine Monitor Resolution on Bootup in Jaunty
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