Horizontal and Vertical Refresh Rates; Screen Size

If it's not perfect, quickly switch back to the console, and try again. I had to play with the screen sizes a bit. A friend suggested starting with the lowest option (640$\times$480) and work up from there, but I found that only the exactly correct one worked. Maybe this is a good approach for a desktop system, but not a laptop.

Another friend, however, tell me that `` that's almost guaranteed to fail on a laptop, as I understand it. Laptops have LCD screens, which are more finicky than LED. When going through the dpkg-reconfigure, you need to specify the screen-size that it is capable of, and tell it that it's an LCD screen, and it ought to be able to get the rest.'' That seemed to have been more correct in my case.

I wanted a screen at 1600$\times$1200, so I set that for my screen size. The first time I installed Debian on this machine, that plus the r128 video card did the trick, and I was set. The second time, however, I also had to play with the horizontal and vertical refresh rates. I ended up setting them as high as I could, and that plus the large screen size plus the r128 card did the trick. It felt like voodoo.