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installed 9.1 on HP laptop, cannot change screen size, new to linux

Asked by Ian

installed 9.1 on HP laptop, cannot change screen size, new to linux
system-pref-display only goes up to 800x600
it will not detect any monitors
how do I get the full screen?
all forum advice seems to be for earlier versions of ubuntu

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

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Ian (dr-i-richardson) said : 		#2

Here it is:

description: VGA compatible controller
       product: CyberBlade/XP
       vendor: Trident Microsystems
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 63
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=64
       resources: memory:ee000000-efffffff memory:ea400000-ea7fffff memory:ec000000-edffffff memory:ea100000-ea107fff memory:20000000-2000ffff(prefetchable)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

run:

gksude gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

paste this text:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Default Screen"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XP"
Driver "trident"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
HorizSync 30.0-60.0
VertRefresh 50.0-70.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Save the file close gedit and reboot, if it fails boot to recovery mode, select root, then rename the file.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

Please note the terminal command:

gksude gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

must be:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Hth

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