Old Toshiba laptop not seeing all the screen under 8.04

[Jeffrey Tooker]

Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
>   
>> NoOp wrote:
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>>> 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
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>
> True that the acceleration doesn't appear to be working, but it wasn't 
> working under earlier Ubuntu releases either.  But this mainly gets used 
> for support work when I'm out of town.  Since most of that is in ssh 
> terminal mode I won't worry too much about the graphics being slow.
>   
Glad to help.

Jeffrey Tooker