Screen resolution changing not working (Debian Squeeze)

[jhuizer]

I have been playing an old game, "Knights and Merchants - The Peasants Rebellion" for a long time on wine, keeping track of latest wine beta releases.

Yesterday I found it not working. The screen goes black (as usual, as there is some resolution changing done and the game will come up full screen), but then it just goes back to the initial screen; There is hardly any output:

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fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f1ec,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:dinput:SysMouseWImpl_Acquire Clipping cursor to (0,0)-(800,600)

Since I have upgraded to Debian Squeeze only last week, I think the problem is most likely caused by (some aspect of) the upgrade changes.
(I tried regression testing but I got nowhere, am not sure whether I did it wrong or so)

Does anyone have any ideas?

[vitamin]

Screen resolution changing not working

Check that you have required mode(s) listed in 'xrandr' output. If not, add them to xorg.conf. Alternatively you can use virtual desktop mode.

[jhuizer]

I found the solution... apparently the problem was totally somewhere else -- in a totally unexpected direction:

I found another program was complaining about not being able to use sound (I had previously removed too many development packages so alsa support was missing).

After installing the relevant package and compiling wine, I more or less randomly tried to run this program, to my great surprise it runs now.

I'm sorry for the noise... the reason I thought it was a resolution changing problem was because of the lack of useful fixme's (and no warnings coming up as requested either)

Thanks for your input anyway!

[fizza9]

Well, I installed xserver-xfree86, then xrandr works with fglrx (ati-driver). But xkb doesn't work anymore. Dunno why. XRandr vs. Xkb, chose one