Upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10, now resolution stuck at 1600x1200

[Jon Pruente]

On 10/21/07, Jason D. Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com> wrote:
> X.org 7.3 (which I presume is what is in Ubuntu since they continue to
> ship unstable piles of crap as "stable") does not have working
> keyboard LED code. It is said that the problem is so deep and
> complicated due to the ancient code responsible for this, that a fix
> is not expected for some time: X.org 7.3.1.
>
> Solution: stop using Ubuntu and switch to the distro that they steal
> all their package from: Debian. The X.org package which was ripped
> verbatim from Debian is correctly marked "unstable" in their
> repositories.

No, my keyboard just does not have physical LEDs, it's one of the
84-key space saver models.  Your rant is not applicable for this
situation. ;)  The issue is that between BIOS boot and user desktop
the numlock setting gets flipped.

Jon.