I took my Acer TravelMate 4202 and upgraded from F8 to F9 last night. I
left it overnight to do it's thing, and everything seemed OK when I came
back this morning. However, I'm noticing two display problems which are
causing me no end of grief:
1) The native LCD display is 1280x800. I had been running 915resolution
previously (the machine's got an Intel 950GMA, but 915resolution
worked), and this still shows as installed. If I run
system-config-display I can select a "generic" LCD monitor with 1280x800
resolution, but I can't get the thing to actually *use* it. I seem to
be stuck at 1024x768. Do I need to wait for an updated 915resolution
for F9, or are there other strategies?
2) I've been using KDE - and I guess it was KDE that started up when I
first logged in this morning. It's tough to tell, of course, because
the window manager option on the login screen is no longer there (can I
get that back somehow?). I tried a number of things within KDE to see
if I could resize the display properly - Desktop Resize and Rotate
looked like it might help, in that it actually *had* an option for the
proper resolution (though it didn't do anything). But then I selected
something like "Compiz Viewer" (I'm sorry, I can't remember the exact
name). I was told to restart the X server, which I did - and now after
logging in all I get is a white screen.. I can get to a console
session, but if I try to restart the X session I get the white screen
again (or worse, a black screen, in which I can type but nothing happens).
I can get to a gnome session only by restarting X to get to the login
screen and selecting "other" for username - then I enter my
username/password as usual. From here, trying to change the default
desktop (using switchdesk) doesn't help - I still get the white screen
if I select my username at the login screen.
Clearly, there should be some basic switch I can flip in a config file
somewhere, but I don't know what it is. How can I get my KDE back? And
will that help me to get my proper display resolution back?
Thanks in advance,
-Don Levey
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