[SOLVED] Display adapter and screen resolution

[DWBC]

Here you are:

don@Compaq:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
00:14.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:14.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:14.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:14.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)
don@Compaq:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,
GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_draw_buffers, GL_ARB_fragment_program,
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture,
GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite,
GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_shadow_ambient, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two,
GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_program,
GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,
GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements,
GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_paletted_texture, GL_EXT_point_parameters,
GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs,
GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_subtexture,
GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,
GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3,
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_INGR_blend_func_separate,
GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_NV_blend_square,
GL_NV_fragment_program, GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_point_sprite,
GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_vertex_program,
GL_NV_vertex_program1_1, GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture,
GL_SGIX_shadow, GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2a 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x44 32 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ncon
don@Compaq:~$

[w4ett]

After doing some research I found this page outlining an issue similar to yours http://translate.google.com/translat...3D1cU%26sa%3DN
and also here is a bug report : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rg/+bug/250916

This bug seems to be preventing X from reconfiguring and loading the correct video driver. I am assuming that you are using 8.10....does this issue appear when you use the live CD? If you are using Intrepid, have you tried the previous version 8.04 to try and duplicate the error?

At the moment, I am of the opinion that the REAL issue here is the acpi error.

[w4ett]

Can someone offer advice for changing screen resolution? I have just installed Ubuntu on a separate hard drive in an older Compaq desktop with 256 M RAM, Pentium III 400 Mhz. The display type (?) reads "unknown" and the highest screen resolution offered is 800 X 600. The display adapter for the machine listed under Windows is Xpert 98 AGP 2X.

Your Compaq Machine is most likely has the same MOBO as the poster from the it.ubuntu forum linked above using 8.04. It doesn't look like he has an answer either, considering we tried the noacpi approach.

[DWBC]

I am running 8.04, not 8.10. I just ran the same distrib live off the CD and tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and it returned the same error message about battery.

[w4ett]

I definitely believe we have a kernel bug at work here. I recommend that you try the 8.10 live cd and try to replicate the acpi error on your hardware. In any event you will need to file a bug report in Launchpad.net on your current kernel so we can possibly get it fixed by the devs.

[w4ett]

Another thought......I never asked this...Have you fully updated this machine? There have been 3 or 4 kernel updates since release.

[linux_tech]

Any system messages?

dmesg

[DWBC]

Okay, covering some of the questions:

I have downloaded and am now running live CD in 8.10.

I didn't update the 8.04 installation, however, I am having some similar issues in 8.10.

When I go to System/Preferences/Screen Resolution, the display type is 'Unknown' and the highest res available is 800 X 600.

The option to choose monitor type and display adapter is not available in 8.10 Edit Menus/Other as it was in 8.04.

System messages returns:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.27-7-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu10) ) #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.27-7.14-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0x10000 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
[ 0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to 10000000 @ 7000-c000
[ 0.000000] RAMDISK: 0f7c1000 - 0ffcf8ae
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.1 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000E0010, 0014 (r0 COMPAQ)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 000E0080, 0034 (r1 COMPAQ CPQB0B5 19990822 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000E00CC, 0074 (r1 COMPAQ INDY 1 0)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 000E0140, 09A1 (r1 COMPAQ DSDT 1 MSFT 100000B)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 000E0040, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000E0AE1, 0FFD (r1 COMPAQ VILLTBL1 1 MSFT 100000B)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000E1ADE, 0774 (r1 COMPAQ PNP_PRSS 1 MSFT 100000B)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000E2252, 0073 (r1 COMPAQ PME 1 MSFT 100000B)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 256MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] mapped low ram: 0 - 10000000
[ 0.000000] low ram: 00000000 - 10000000
[ 0.000000] bootmap 00002000 - 00004000
[ 0.000000] (9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 0010000000]
[ 0.000000] #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
[ 0.000000] #1 [0000001000 - 0000002000] EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
[ 0.000000] #2 [0000006000 - 0000007000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
[ 0.000000] #3 [0000100000 - 00005c0a20] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 00005c0a20]
[ 0.000000] #4 [000f7c1000 - 000ffcf8ae] RAMDISK ==> [000f7c1000 - 000ffcf8ae]
[ 0.000000] #5 [00005c1000 - 00005c4000] INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [00005c1000 - 00005c4000]
[ 0.000000] #6 [000009fc00 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009fc00 - 0000100000]
[ 0.000000] #7 [0000007000 - 0000008000] PGTABLE ==> [0000007000 - 0000008000]
[ 0.000000] #8 [0000002000 - 0000004000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000002000 - 0000004000]
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
[ 0.000000] Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x00010000
[ 0.000000] HighMem 0x00010000 -> 0x00010000
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x0000009f
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00010000
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 65439
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c048a500, node_mem_map c1000000
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 3963 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 60900 pages, LIFO batch:15
[ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
[ 0.000000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
[ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (01241000)
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:effc0000)
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 41628 bytes of per cpu data
[ 0.000000] NR_CPUS: 64, nr_cpu_ids: 1, nr_node_ids 1
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 64863
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --
[ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.000000] TSC: Using PIT calibration value
[ 0.000000] Detected 448.052 MHz processor.
[ 0.004000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 0.004000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 0.004000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.004000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.004000] Memory: 245832k/262144k available (2572k kernel code, 15724k reserved, 1160k data, 424k init, 0k highmem)
[ 0.004000] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.004000] fixmap : 0xffc77000 - 0xfffff000 (3616 kB)
[ 0.004000] pkmap : 0xff400000 - 0xff800000 (4096 kB)
[ 0.004000] vmalloc : 0xd0800000 - 0xff3fe000 ( 747 MB)
[ 0.004000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0000000 ( 256 MB)
[ 0.004000] .init : 0xc04ab000 - 0xc0515000 ( 424 kB)
[ 0.004000] .data : 0xc038329a - 0xc04a5680 (1160 kB)
[ 0.004000] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc038329a (2572 kB)
[ 0.004000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
[ 0.004000] CPA: page pool initialized 1 of 1 pages preallocated
[ 0.004000] SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.004031] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 896.10 BogoMIPS (lpj=1792208)
[ 0.004131] Security Framework initialized
[ 0.004169] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 0.004283] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[ 0.004331] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.005136] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[ 0.005157] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.005171] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 0.005244] CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
[ 0.005261] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
[ 0.005335] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 0.020190] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.036071] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[ 0.036307] weird, boot CPU (#0) not listedby the BIOS.
[ 0.036321] SMP motherboard not detected.
[ 0.036335] Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
[ 0.036346] SMP disabled
[ 0.036819] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 0.036834] Total of 1 processors activated (896.10 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.036902] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[ 0.036917] domain 0: span 0 level CPU
[ 0.036931] groups: 0
[ 0.038441] net_namespace: 840 bytes
[ 0.038476] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 0.040492] Time: 17:02:18 Date: 01/03/09
[ 0.040640] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.043280] EISA bus registered
[ 0.046914] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xed9a0, last bus=1
[ 0.046931] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
[ 0.055110] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 0.055128] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 0.055436] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 0.055455] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
[ 0.055536] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f7de0
[ 0.055553] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xe453, dseg 0xf0000
[ 0.065484] PnPBIOS: 18 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 18 recorded by driver
[ 0.068587] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[ 0.068605] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 0.069002] PCI: 0000:00:00.0 reg 10 32bit mmio: [44000000, 47ffffff]
[ 0.069196] PCI: 0000:00:12.0 reg 10 io port: [2400, 24ff]
[ 0.069218] PCI: 0000:00:12.0 reg 14 32bit mmio: [41100000, 411003ff]
[ 0.069265] PCI: 0000:00:12.0 reg 30 32bit mmio: [0, 1ffff]
[ 0.069299] pci 0000:00:12.0: supports D1
[ 0.069310] pci 0000:00:12.0: supports D2
[ 0.069322] pci 0000:00:12.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
[ 0.069340] pci 0000:00:12.0: PME# disabled
[ 0.069494] PCI: 0000:00:14.1 reg 20 io port: [2060, 206f]
[ 0.069610] PCI: 0000:00:14.2 reg 20 io port: [2040, 205f]
[ 0.069673] * Found PM-Timer Bug on the chipset. Due to workarounds for a bug,
[ 0.069682] * this clock source is slow. Consider trying other clock sources
[ 0.069769] pci 0000:00:14.3: quirk: region f800-f83f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
[ 0.069787] pci 0000:00:14.3: quirk: region fc00-fc0f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
[ 0.069901] PCI: 0000:01:00.0 reg 10 32bit mmio: [40000000, 40ffffff]
[ 0.069923] PCI: 0000:01:00.0 reg 14 io port: [1000, 10ff]
[ 0.069943] PCI: 0000:01:00.0 reg 18 32bit mmio: [41000000, 41000fff]
[ 0.069982] PCI: 0000:01:00.0 reg 30 32bit mmio: [0, 1ffff]
[ 0.070073] PCI: bridge 0000:00:01.0 io port: [1000, 1fff]
[ 0.070089] PCI: bridge 0000:00:01.0 32bit mmio: [40000000, 410fffff]
[ 0.073357] pci 0000:00:14.0: PIIX/ICH IRQ router [8086/7110]
[ 0.073921] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 0.073921] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 0.073921] NetLabel: Initializing
[ 0.073921] NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
[ 0.073921] NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
[ 0.073921] NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
[ 0.076195] tracer: 772 pages allocated for 65536 entries of 48 bytes
[ 0.076210] actual entries 65620
[ 0.077108] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[ 0.077231] system 00:08: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
[ 0.077250] system 00:08: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[ 0.077267] system 00:08: iomem range 0x100000-0xfffffff could not be reserved
[ 0.077284] system 00:08: iomem range 0xfffc0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
[ 0.077355] system 00:12: ioport range 0x15c-0x15d has been reserved
[ 0.077372] system 00:12: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[ 0.077387] system 00:12: ioport range 0x77e-0x77f has been reserved
[ 0.077402] system 00:12: ioport range 0xc06-0xc07 has been reserved
[ 0.077418] system 00:12: ioport range 0xc50-0xc51 has been reserved
[ 0.077433] system 00:12: ioport range 0xc70-0xc77 has been reserved
[ 0.077448] system 00:12: ioport range 0xc82-0xc82 has been reserved
[ 0.077464] system 00:12: ioport range 0xcf8-0xcff could not be reserved
[ 0.077499] system 00:13: ioport range 0xf800-0xf81f has been reserved
[ 0.077516] system 00:13: ioport range 0xf820-0xf83f has been reserved
[ 0.077532] system 00:13: ioport range 0xfc00-0xfc0f has been reserved
[ 0.082078] pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
[ 0.082097] pci 0000:00:01.0: IO window: 0x1000-0x1fff
[ 0.082116] pci 0000:00:01.0: MEM window: 0x40000000-0x410fffff
[ 0.082133] pci 0000:00:01.0: PREFETCH window: 0x00000020000000-0x000000200fffff
[ 0.082172] bus: 00 index 0 io port: [0, ffff]
[ 0.082185] bus: 00 index 1 mmio: [0, ffffffff]
[ 0.082197] bus: 01 index 0 io port: [1000, 1fff]
[ 0.082209] bus: 01 index 1 mmio: [40000000, 410fffff]
[ 0.082221] bus: 01 index 2 mmio: [20000000, 200fffff]
[ 0.082233] bus: 01 index 3 mmio: [0, 0]
[ 0.082280] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.083165] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.084559] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.084867] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.085172] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[ 0.085187] TCP reno registered
[ 0.085649] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.086243] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 3.634602] Freeing initrd memory: 8250k freed
[ 3.638425] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 3.638502] type=2000 audit(1231002140.636:1): initialized
[ 3.666848] HugeTLB registered 4 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 3.686124] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 3.686776] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 3.687470] msgmni has been set to 496
[ 3.688375] io scheduler noop registered
[ 3.688391] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 3.688403] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 3.688510] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 3.688558] pci 0000:00:00.0: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers
[ 3.688651] pci 0000:01:00.0: Boot video device
[ 3.690546] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 4.044954] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 4.383109] Serial: 8250/16550 driver4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 4.383590] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 4.384416] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
[ 4.388242] 00:03: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 4.390239] 00:04: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
[ 4.404721] brd: module loaded
[ 4.405206] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
[ 4.406097] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f0e] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 4.408431] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 4.408471] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 4.411017] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 4.412052] rtc_cmos 00:0e: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[ 4.412113] rtc0: alarms up to one day
[ 4.413079] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 4.413100] EISA: Cannot allocate resource for mainboard
[ 4.413115] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[ 4.413128] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
[ 4.413187] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 4.413203] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 4.413216] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 4.416550] TCP cubic registered
[ 4.416709] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 4.418367] registered taskstats version 1
[ 4.418734] Magic number: 9:955:35
[ 4.419190] rtc_cmos 00:0e: setting system clock to 2009-01-03 17:02:22 UTC (1231002142)
[ 4.419208] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 4.419219] EDD information not available.
[ 4.421397] Freeing unused kernel memory: 424k freed
[ 4.421675] Write protecting the kernel text: 2576k
[ 4.421838] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 936k
[ 4.456951] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
[ 4.832207] compcache: Compressed swap size set to: 63680 KB
[ 4.833681] TLSF: pool: d080c000, init_size=16384, max_size=0, grow_size=16384
[ 5.400514] fuse init (API version 7.9)
[ 5.585700] thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit
[ 6.948892] Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.15 (Feb 27, 2007)
[ 6.963458] PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
[ 6.963478] tulip 0000:00:12.0: found PCI INT A -> IRQ 11
[ 6.964024] tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7869 advertising 05e1.
[ 6.970220] eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at Port 0x2400, 00:50:bf:a3:f0:40, IRQ 11.
[ 7.596857] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 7.596982] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 7.602617] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 7.668163] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 7.672070] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 7.672285] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: found PCI INT D -> IRQ 11
[ 7.672365] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 7.672680] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 7.672757] uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x00002040
[ 7.673607] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 7.673810] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 7.673866] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 7.843015] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[ 7.910096] Adding 63676k swap on /dev/ramzswap0. Priority:100 extents:1 across:63676k
[ 8.056207] ata_piix 0000:00:14.1: version 2.12
[ 8.068189] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 8.068629] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 8.080559] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 8.080839] ata1: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x2060 irq 14
[ 8.080857] ata2: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x2068 irq 15
[ 8.219567] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 8.222068] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 8.223916] hub 1-1:1.0: 7 ports detected
[ 8.254657] ata1.00: ATA-4: WDC WD64AA, 82.10A82, max UDMA/66
[ 8.254675] ata1.00: 12594960 sectors, multi 8: LBA
[ 8.254767] ata1.01: ATA-4: FUJITSU MPE3102AT, ED-03-04, max UDMA/66
[ 8.254783] ata1.01: 20016348 sectors, multi 8: LBA
[ 8.269619] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 8.284931] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33
[ 8.441301] ata2.00: ATAPI: LTN323, DQ15, max MWDMA2, CDB intr
[ 8.457630] ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2
[ 8.458276] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD64AA 82.1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 8.459136] scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA FUJITSU MPE3102A ED-0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 8.461200] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITEON CD-ROM LTN323 DQ15 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 8.525884] usb 1-1.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 8.660615] usb 1-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 8.737836] usb 1-1.3: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[ 8.861484] usb 1-1.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 8.941812] usb 1-1.5: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[ 10.575879] scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 10.576198] scsi 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 10.576515] scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[ 10.848420] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[ 10.849015] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 12594960 512-byte hardware sectors (6449 MB)
[ 10.849148] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 10.849166] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 10.849390] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 10.849799] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 12594960 512-byte hardware sectors (6449 MB)
[ 10.849924] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 10.849942] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 10.850168] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 10.850199] sda: sda1
[ 10.879296] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 10.879747] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 20016348 512-byte hardware sectors (10248 MB)
[ 10.879879] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 10.879896] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 10.880120] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 10.880534] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 20016348 512-byte hardware sectors (10248 MB)
[ 10.880695] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 10.880713] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 10.880943] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 10.880974] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 <<4>Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[ 10.914140] sdb5 >
[ 10.914899] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 10.965646] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 10.965668] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 10.966155] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 12.656499] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 12.656570] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 13.738954] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 13.760908] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[ 14.090982] aufs 20080922
[ 14.106587] usb 1-1.5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 14.220363] loop: module loaded
[ 14.560443] squashfs: version 3.3 (2007/10/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 142.621229] udevd version 124 started
[ 146.785055] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 147.010537] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 147.505216] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 148.115795] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 440BX Chipset
[ 148.129616] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2
[ 148.168767] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x44000000
[ 148.221447] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.3: SMBus Host Controller at 0xfc00, revision 0
[ 151.468727] input: PS2++ Logitech Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input3
[ 152.245039] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0001
[ 152.245194] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
[ 152.529984] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 152.833463] gspca: main v2.2.0 registered
[ 153.001580] gspca: probing 041e:403a
[ 154.624578] zc3xx: probe 2wr ov vga 0x0000
[ 154.668582] zc3xx: probe sensor -> 11
[ 154.668599] zc3xx: Find Sensor HV7131R(c)
[ 154.674299] gspca: probe ok
[ 154.674456] usbcore: registered new interface driver zc3xx
[ 154.674610] zc3xx: registered
[ 163.871692] Adding 465844k swap on /dev/sdb5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:465844k
[ 164.878626] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 176.690059] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_notify_smm
[ 176.690928] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_unregister_performance
[ 176.694554] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_preregister_performance
[ 176.695883] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_register_performance
[ 180.275507] warning: `avahi-daemon' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
[ 180.565439] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 181.462935] parport_pc 00:01: reported by Plug and Play BIOS
[ 181.463096] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
[ 181.569028] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 181.955561] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 194.311439] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.13
[ 194.320394] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 194.320427] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 194.320445] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 194.485121] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.11
[ 194.485154] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 194.767053] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 194.768732] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 194.768766] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.10
[ 194.793438] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[ 194.793473] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 195.209925] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 195.209960] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 195.645755] Bridge firewalling registered
[ 195.647923] pan0: Dropping NETIF_F_UFO since no NETIF_F_HW_CSUM feature.
[ 205.277651] 0000:00:12.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xfc664010 CSR6 0xff972113)
[ 205.277703] eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1.
[ 205.345213] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 747.501701] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 747.510795] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 757.636083] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg returns
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration
file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20090104013415
- So the error message is gone. However the screen resolution seems the same.

[w4ett]

Well these old eyes don't see any glaring errors there. If it were me, I'd go ahead and do a clean install of 8.10 considering the acpi error seems to be fixed in the newer kernel. With the finalized installation we can then begin to tweak it if need be.

[silvagroup]

This is very interesting since I am having the very same problem with an 8.04.1 install on a Compaq Presario S5200CL with an imageQuest L70s.
After reading this I tried a liveDVD of Sabayon4 and the resolution problem is not there, it actually works extremely well even using compiz-fusion.
So there is something wrong with the Ubuntu kernel in 8.04 as has been suggested. In a google search this is not something new to 8.04 it appears something very similar went on with earlier versions, but I don't recall seeing the problem with the earlier versions. And this is a fresh install of 8.04.
I will download the 8.10 live and see if that helps any, and report back with findings.