Old Toshiba laptop not seeing all the screen under 8.04

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
> Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
>> Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
>>   
>>> 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
>>>     
>> The only thing it asked me about was my keyboard.  What file is this 
>> screen resolution information stored in?  I'd be quite happy to go an 
>> edit that directly to tell it what resolution I want it to use.
>>   
> I am in Gutsy, and new at this. There is a GUI for xorg at 
> System>Administration>Xserver-xorg. This allows manual setting of 
> values. You are probably more familiar with graphics than I. There are 
> warnings about using the GUI. The standard warning is back up xorg so if 
> things go bad you can at least get back to where you were.
> 
> Best of luck.
> 
> Jeffrey Tooker

I'll give that a shot since editing the .xorg file and adding the 
resolution information directly to the "screen" section didn't appear to 
make any difference. I'm not to concerned if this doesn't work out.  I 
can always go back to Darya for now.
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