[PLUG] Help! Display at 640x480!

John Jason Jordan johnxj at gmx.com
Mon Mar 18 21:18:12 UTC 2019


On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:37:02 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:

>On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 21:53:11 -0700
>Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> dijo:
>
>>This is just a WAG, but try removing and re-seating your video cable. 
>>Your computer queries the monitor to determine what resolutions it 
>>supports.  If that query fails, then I could envision a scenario
>>where the video driver defaults to a low resolution.  As I said,
>>though, it's just a guess.  It's probably something else.  
>
>I should have added that it's a laptop. Also, the video chip is NVIDIA
>GeForce GTX 765M, as reported by lspci.

It took me nearly ten hours, but just now I finally got it working
again. I only wish I knew what happened to cause the problem.



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