Unfortunately I have an ATI display card in my laptop, it is a wide screen laptop and so far I used the 1024x768 resolution instead of the native 1280x768. Some girl (sorry, forgot your name and you're not in mugshots) prodded me to fix that since my screen looked pretty warped. Today I finally got to do it and install fglrx to get my native resolution working and boy, is it a change!
The ingredients for this recipe:
- A computer with ATI display driver
- Debian unstable (though testing and etch should work as well)
- A network connection
Instructions:
- su -
- aptitude install fglrx-control fglrx-driver fglrx-driver-dev fglrx-kernel-src modula-assistant linux-headers-2.6-686
- m-a -t auto-install fglrx
- aticonfig -f --install
- Restart X, you can do it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, or just restart the computer
- Enjoy the beautiful new look of your desktop!
If you are using an AMD machine replace the linux-headers-2.6-686 with linux-headers-2.6-k7.