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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

Screen resolution problem

Asked by Jason Imago on 2012-02-23

I recently bought a new MSI U180 netbook and after realising it came with windows, I switched it to Ubuntu 11.10. The screen is supposed to be 1024x600 yet it displays at 800x600. In the "Displays" menu, the screen is labelled "Unknown" and the only option avaliable is the 800x600. From what I've read this means it's not picking up a driver for it.

There are a few similar questions to this however none of the solutions have worked for me so far. I do believe the solution is to modify xorg.conf but I have no idea how to do so. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The following pieces of information are things I've used/tried so far. They may either be useful or useless but it doesn't hurt to put the information there.

xorg.conf is empty - every time I've attempted to follow guides or instructions and put something in it, my computer fails to boot.

Results of cvt 1024 600:
# 1024x600 59.85 Hz (CVT) hsync: 37.35 kHz; pclk: 49.00 MHz
Modeline "1024x600_60.00" 49.00 1024 1072 1168 1312 600 603 613 624 -hsync +vsync

Then if I try: xrandr --newmode "1024x600_60.00" 49.00 1024 1072 1168 1312 600 603 613 624 -hsync +vsync
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

Results of xrandr:
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 600
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
800x600 0.0*

results of sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver.xorg:
Package `xserver.xorg' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xserver.xorg is not installed.

Results of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Cedarview DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Cedarview Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05)

If this duplicates other posts then I apologise, however having followed many other posts with no success and being somewhat of a beginner in Linux, I hope this warrants a new question.

Question information

Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu xserver-xorg-video-intel Edit question

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Solved by:: MikeR

Solved:: 2012-10-31

Last query:: 2012-10-31

Last reply:: 2012-09-29