After upgrading to 7.3, settings in xorg.conf are not obeyed

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 09:31 +0300, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 September 2007 15:02:08 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > Have you checked the output of "xrandr" to see if 1600x1200 is
> > listed?
> 
> I reinstalled 7.3 last night, and (of course) the same results. Here is 
> the output of xrandr:
> 
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1152 x 768, maximum 2048 x 2048
> VGA-0 connected 1152x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 
> 0mm x 0m
> m
>    2048x1536      60.0
>    1920x1440      60.0
>    1856x1392      60.0
>    1792x1344      75.0     60.0
>    1600x1200      85.0     75.0     70.0     65.0     60.0
>    1600x1024      60.0
>    1400x1050      74.8     60.0
>    1280x1024      85.0     75.0     60.0
>    1280x960       85.0     60.0
>    1152x864       75.0
>    1152x768       54.8*
>    1024x768       85.0     75.0     70.1     60.0
>    832x624        74.6
>    800x600        85.1     72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2
>    640x480        85.0     72.8     75.0     59.9
>    720x400        85.0
>    640x400        85.1
>    640x350        85.1
> DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 
> I was looking through bugs.freedesktop.org also to see if other people 
> had problems with resolutions. There were quite a few reports, but I've 
> not had chance to try out any of the proposed solutions yet.
> 
> One thing I will try this evening is swapping out the 9600 for a 9250 I 
> have, to see if that changes anything.

1600x1200 is listed.  Have you simply tried changing the resolution with
xrandr?

Adam