Video Resolution Went Bad After Updates

[pscowboy]

Totally green noobie would like to know what happened to my gorgeous, crisp monitor screen 1280x1024, 75v refresh? Just completed Core6 install an hour ago - screen looked great.

After the system went out to get 150 or so updates and went about installing them, something happened about 2/3rds into it. The comp rebooted and I can only get 800x600 @ 60 refresh - totally horrible to work with.

What the hell happened?

[Seve]

Originally Posted by pscowboy

What the hell happened?

Hello:
No idea......stuff happens

What type of monitor and video card do you have?
You may want to system-config-display and make sure your hardware settings make sense.
If you had 3rd party drivers installed and you installed a new kernel you will have to reinstall the drivers to match your kernel.

Seve

[Dan]

Seve, I think the batch of updates a week ago had a kernel and an nVIDIA drivers update in it. I didn't install them, but that'd sure kick him back to the nv drivers.

Dan

[pscowboy]

Optiquest Q95

ATI Rage 128

No 3rd party drivers. I let the install set it up.

[pscowboy]

Not wanting to linger with this issue, I wiped the drive and started over from the top.

When system was set up to my liking again, I allowed the myriad of updates to occur. I kept an eye on it this time. Not surprisingly, nothing went wrong this time - resolution held steady - beautiful, crisp display.

Must have been a download glitch - s??? happens!