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Re: got sick of vista, installed ubuntu tonight
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:05 pm
by U4EA
Old laptop (PIII era) and it doesn't let me use resolutions higher than 800x600. I think its native resolution is at least 1024x768. Is this a driver issue? How can I find appropriate drivers for its graphics card? It's a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600.
Re: got sick of vista, installed ubuntu tonight
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:20 pm
by ^misantropia^
What does the output of `lspci` look like?
Re: got sick of vista, installed ubuntu tonight
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:16 am
by U4EA
Aha! Fair enough, it spat out a bunch of hardware info, the pertinent one in this case being:
Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/XP (rev 63)
Re: got sick of vista, installed ubuntu tonight
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:28 am
by ^misantropia^
That's some oldskool hardware. You'll probably need to hack your xorg.conf a little for this to get it to work. You might want to give this example config a try:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... ostcount=9