I believe I have seen this exact same problem as well. Currently, I work around this and two other serious problems I had (bug 148408 and bug 187967) with the gutsy version by just downgrading xserver-xorg- video-ati to feisty.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/i386/xserver-xorg-video-ati/1:6.6.3-2ubuntu6 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/i386/xserver-xorg-video-ati/1:6.7.195-1ubuntu2 -- Ubuntu 7.10 won't use full capability of my ATI graphics card, only get 800x600 now, 6.06 allowed higher resolutions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs