Low Resolution with Ubuntu 9.10

[Sebastian Burch]

Hello! I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on Toshiba satellite SA20-S103. I am having problems with the resolution, System/Dislplay wont let me choose a higher resolution than 800x600, I would love to have my 1024×768 back.

The graphics card is a trident "ALi Cyberblade Aladdin Ai1.

If anyone could help me solve this problem.

[RedSingularity]

Look in system>Admin>Hardware Drivers. See if you can load a propietary driver. If not post the output of

lspci | grep VGA

[Sebastian Burch]

1.- There isn't any proprietary drivers to load in system>Admin>Hardware Drivers

2.- The Output of lspci | grep VGA

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82)


Thank you!

[RedSingularity]

Post the output of

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Sebastian Burch]

The output of (cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf ) is:

cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory


Which doesn't makes sense to me, so I don't know what to do now. Thank you.

[RedSingularity]

Make sure you type it just like thiis.....

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Sebastian Burch]

I think I have. In the terminal I wrote exactly:

sebastian@sebastian-laptop:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and this is the output I get:

cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory


What can I be doing wrong? Thank you.

[RedSingularity]

Hmmm maybe you dont have a xorg file. Thats odd. Try......... gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Sebastian Burch]

It does open the Xorg.conf file:



I guess I just need to write in it. thank you

[Sebastian Burch]

I did it and this is what I get:

sebastian@sebastian-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
[sudo] password for sebastian:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ubuntu-desktop is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
sebastian@sebastian-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get reinstall ubuntu-desktop
E: Invalid operation reinstall
sebastian@sebastian-laptop:~$

thank you