I have a panel on each side of the screen and they expand, how can I get rid of them?

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a

Thanks

I have 10.10 installed on an Acer netbook. Somehow I got a blank black rectangular shaped panel on each side of the screen. It expands from top to bottom as the curser touches it. I would like to remove them to give me more screen space...

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a

Thanks

Output is...*-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:58280000-582fffff ioport:60f0(size=8)
memory:40000000-4fffffff memory:58300000-5833ffff
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
       description: Display controller
       product: Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics
Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:58200000-5827ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
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