Old Toshiba laptop not seeing all the screen under 8.04

[Steven Davies-Morris]

NoOp wrote:
> On 05/30/2008 09:22 AM, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
>> The laptop is an 8 year old Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600. The VGA 
>> controller is a Cyberblade/XP by Trident.  This morning on a whim I put 
>> Hardy 8.04 on it, a clean replace of "Darya" Mint Linux 4.0 (based on 
>> Feisty).  Now I only get 800 resolution and a ton of unusable black 
>> space around the edges.  When I go into the Screen Resolution tool it 
>> won't offer many anything greater than 800.  What's my next move?
> 
> Boot into recovery mode, select the second option to recover X, then
> when finished, select option 1 to continue to boot. That should pick up
> & correct the resolution. If not then you may need to edit
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf

What did it was opening a terminal and do "sudo displayconfig-gtk".

I found my driver (finally!  yeah...) Trident Cyberblade and saved it. 
  Rebooted and then screen filled out all the way.  Then I went back in 
to the display config routine and changed the screen display resolution 
to 1024*768.  Now everything is as it was before when I was running 
"Darya" Mint Linux v4, except that I'm on Hardy.

The HU! for this can be found here:
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5081054#post5081054>
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