Old Toshiba laptop not seeing all the screen under 8.04

[Jeffrey Tooker]

NoOp wrote:
> On 05/30/2008 09:22 AM, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
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>> 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?
>>     
>
> Boot into recovery mode, select the second option to recover X, then
> when finished, select option 1 to continue to boot. That should pick up
> & correct the resolution. If not then you may need to edit
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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Found this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-trident/+bug/232491

Jeffrey Tooker