After Ubuntu 8.10 install on Dell Latitude, screen resolution is fouled

[edhawk2]

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Latitude laptop and since then the screen resolution has been changed. On boot up, the text characters are larger than before and I can't change screen resolution at all while running Ubuntu. I think the installation may have screwed up the bios.

Any thoughts?

[utnubuuser]

Hi - That's most likely a driver issue, - not Bios. Check System>>Administration>>Hardware Drivers.

You probably need the fglrx driver, since most Latitude's have ATI graphics cards.

You might want to post the output of dmesg and/or lspci from a terminal, so anyone stopping by can see what your hardware is.

One of the simplest commands to see if xorg will correct the problem without a different driver is:sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[iris-n]

My Latitude has an integrated intel i810 graphics card.

I've ran into this problem to. To solve it, I had to System->Preferences->Main Menu. Then Other->Screens and Graphics. Then I was able to change resolution. There is also System->Preferences->Screen Resolution, but for some reason I remember that that didn't worked.

Hope that helps,

Iris