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hi after two days now trying to get my wifes laptop to accept ubuntu i have instsalled 8.04 on , the only problem is i can not adjust the resolution there i only 800x600 and 640x80 i have tried all different ways even tried to edit xorg resulting in a unbootable system any help will be welcome.
the laptop is a advent celeron 1.73ghz
1 gig of ram
80 gig hard drive
fully updated
thanks
What graphic card are we working with?
Code:lspci|grep -i vga
graphics card is sis systems from what i can gather the system is booting on the default driver versa below is the details
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)
thanks again
I've managed to stay away from SiS for the last few years, so I don't have any direct advice. A quick search gave me the following:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=958967
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1083182
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...is/+bug/332140