Old Toshiba laptop not seeing all the screen under 8.04

[Jeffrey Tooker]

Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> The laptop is an 8 year old Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600. The VGA 
> controller is a Cyberblade/XP by Trident.  This morning on a whim I put 
> Hardy 8.04 on it, a clean replace of "Darya" Mint Linux 4.0 (based on 
> Feisty).  Now I only get 800 resolution and a ton of unusable black 
> space around the edges.  When I go into the Screen Resolution tool it 
> won't offer many anything greater than 800.  What's my next move?
>   
Steven:

Have you tried

"sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"

This reconfigures the graphics for your system by your choices. These are determined by the characteristics of your system.  Hope this helps.

Jeffrey Tooker