Feisty video settings on a macbook

[Peter Gort]

Hi All,

I've just installed Ubuntu (latest cd download) onto a spare  
partition on my Macbook.  I was very impressed with the installation,  
the cd booted, the installer asked a few questions, and it was all  
done.  Very impressive.

Unfortunately I have only 3 screen resolutions, 1024*768, 800*600,  
640*480.

The macbook does not have a separate video processor chip, handling  
everything on board.  It does desktop effects beautifully.... at  
1024*768.  The native resolution of the dispay however, is 1280*800.   
No problem I thought, and ran dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg  
(which is what is suggested at the start of the /etc/X11/Xorg.conf  
file).  It defaulted to the VESA driver, and the same three  
resolutions I get in System Preferences Screen Resolution.  np I  
thought, and just added the 1280*800 option.  Rebooting left me with  
no graphical interface at all....

Warning: I'm a part time dabbler and know just enough to be really  
dangerous in Ubuntu.... and I seem to recall that doing the above  
worked in 6.06 or 5.04.

So, does anybody what driver I should have selected / how to  
configure Feisty to work on a Macbook at native resolution of 1280*800?

Bonus question:  I've got an Apple 23" cinema display, resolution  
1920*1200, is it possibly to Feisty that the external monitor exists  
and use it as well as the built in?


Peter Gort