Old Toshiba laptop not seeing all the screen under 8.04

[Derek Broughton]

Steven Davies-Morris wrote:

> Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
>> 
>> "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"
>> 
>> This reconfigures the graphics for your system by your choices. These are
>> determined by the characteristics of your system.  Hope this helps.
> 
> The only thing it asked me about was my keyboard.  What file is this
> screen resolution information stored in?  I'd be quite happy to go an
> edit that directly to tell it what resolution I want it to use.

That's about all it should do - the actual graphics resolutions it will
figure out for itself.  It's likely that you need to be able to provide it
with a custom modeline - what sort of graphics chipset does it have?
-- 
derek