For months I've been living with a 1024x768 screen size on a 1366x768-pixel screen after a system upgrade, and not wanting to wade through all the obsolete advice found on Google. Finally I tried again last night and got it working with this:
jcomeau@intrepid:~$ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-ati.conf Section "Device" Identifier "ati" Driver "radeon" VideoRam 16384 EndSection
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