[DodgeIt]

After the upgrade to 6.1 my display is running in VGA mode, (I can only see about half the screen on a 20" display), I've followed the threads and see the options for forcing resolution but when I view the xorg.conf file I find that it contains no data. I also checked the xorg-untangle-vesa.conf file and see a section that reads:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Other than the video glitch everything seems to be working, I'm running dedicated boxes, that are using the integrated video, (NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE Graphics).

Do I understand Sky-knight correctly in that if I add the section to the xorg.conf file I can force the resolution? I believe I saw somewhere else that the file didn't appear to be read any longer.

O.K. After searching some of the Debian forums, I found an additional line that I added to my xorg.conf file to get the resolution set. Starting with esantos sample above:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "PreferredMode" "1400x1050"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

I did the following:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModeLine "1280x1024_60.00"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

This allowed me to set the resolution back to 1280x1024, using the Ctrl+ALT+Backspace keys to reload the XServer. The original lines didn't work until I added the ModeLine, also the Virtual screen didn't seem to work, possible for the same reason...