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[all variants] Ubuntu is using VESA instead of intel

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I am using Ubuntu 12.04 (32). I have a graphic card: Intel corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller and monitor: Acer, max resolution 1920x1080 After installation of the OS I have options only from VESA (output of xrandr): *** xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024 default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1280x1024 0.0* 1024x768 0.0 800x600 0.0 640x480 0.0 *** That is really quite bad for eyes.. everything is too much wide. I have tried sea (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 08/25/2012

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