Ubuntu 8.10 Screen Resolution Issues

[Chris Hwang]

Hello-

I seem to have a problem with my screen's resolution. The highest option allowed is 800x600, while the screen is capable of much higher resolutions.
I just installed ubuntu 8.10, and I tried editing xconfig. Any suggestions?

Here is the video card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C61 [Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01)

And the laptop is a Sony S150...

Please help...

e-mail chrishwang2005@hotmail.com

Thank You!

[Jeyaganeshdj]

Hi,

Seems you have not installed the driver for your display. Go to System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers and it will show you the available display drivers. Just click on the activate and your display driver should be activated.

[northern lights]

Hi,

Seems you have not installed the driver for your display. Go to System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers and it will show you the available display drivers. Just click on the activate and your display driver should be activated.

If this does not fix the situation, please post the output of

sudo lshw -C display

Thank you.

[Chris Hwang]

*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: M9+ 5C61 [Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm cap_list
configuration: latency=66 mingnt=8

[northern lights]

Your device is not assigned a correct driver.

What release are you on?

AFAIK, a driver should appear under "System > Administration > Hardware Drivers".

Anyhow, run

sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

Reboot. Now what?

[Chris Hwang]

8.10

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package xorg-driver-fglrx

[kansasnoob]

Read here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

The model of the card is in the 9xxx series, 9500 or higher, or it is in the X series (e.g. X300), or it has TV-Out capability. The 'fglrx' driver does not support cards earlier than the 9500.

So I don't think fglrx fits your needs.

Now, I realize that only covers things thru 8.04! I'll try and do some more studying!

Xorg has changed a lot!

[kansasnoob]

Ah, this looks promising, but read carefully!

I've not personally done any testing because I don't have any ATI to test!

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide

[northern lights]

So I don't think fglrx fits your needs.

Now, I realize that only covers things thru 8.04! I'll try and do some more studying!

Xorg has changed a lot!

Video driver for the ATI Radeon and FireGL graphics accelerators.

This version of the ATI driver officially supports:

* RADEON X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900
* RADEON 8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800
* RADEON X800, X700, X600, X550, X300 series (AGP and PCI Express)
* MOBILITY RADEON 9000, 9200, 9600, 9800, X700
* MOBILITY RADEON 9000/9100 IGP Series
* FireGL 8700, 8800, E1, E2, X1, X2, X3, Z1, T2
* MOBILITY FireGL 9100, T2
* RADEON XPRESS 200

. This package provides 2D display drivers and hardware accelerated OpenGL.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/xorg-driver-fglrx

@the OP:
What repositories do you have enabled/disabled?

[Chris Hwang]

Ok... What do I do now? I went to the website and downloaded the two files to my desktop... i'm a beginner to ubuntu and linux. Can anyone help me with a step by step process?