Small screen after installing 10.4 on Laptop

[Richard3]

Hi. I am a new user. I installed 10.4 on my Satellite Pro via CD replacing XP.

Screen resolution is now only 800x600 which fills only 3/4 of available screen space and there are no greater options in System Preferences Monitors. It is also operating rather slower than the previous OS, maybe these two issues are connected?

I have checked Administration for any required Proprietary Drivers. There is just one for a modem which is activated.

During installation I aborted it then closed down and restarted, which may have affected the process?

Any advice as to how to increase the visible screen area?

[davidmohammed]

difficult to say without knowing what your graphics card is....

in a terminal type

lspci | grep VGA

also

copy and paste the contents of the file (if it exists) here

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

finally in a terminal run

xrandr

and copy and paste the contents here.

[Richard3]

Took me a little while to work out your instruction and carry them out as I am new to this

Result as follows doesn't look encouraging

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

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

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 600
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
800x600 60.0* 56.0
640x480 60.0
400x300 60.0 56.0
320x240 60.0

[Krabby.Linux]

Do you have a monitor? Connect it if you have one and take a look on the display. Is it the same there?

[Richard3]

It displays full screen on the monitor

[Richard3]

Yes I do have a separate monitor I have connected it and it displays full screen

[overdrank]

Hi and welcome, You may look here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=830643&highlight=Trident) for some help.

[Richard3]

Hi very useful thanks and I have learned a lot.
I have followed through on the links run the checker again and got the following:

Checking for texture_from_pixmap... [ OK ]
Checking for non power of two support... [ OK ]
Checking for composite extension... [ OK ]
Checking for FBConfig... [ OK ]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [FAIL]

There has been (at least) one error detected with your setup:
Error: Software Rasterizer in use

I could do with a prompt as to how to repond

[Richard3]

Hi

This is the steer I got from the Compiz Forum after following their guidance and then run the Compiz checker a couple of times

"Compiz will not work with that particular GPU. As for your screen resolution problems, you should probably ask on the Ubuntu forums".

I now know that Compiz is not a solution.

Is there any solution for supporting a rasterizer or rendering function in Ubuntu?