Can't get laptop into more than 800x600?

[Szymon Marciniak]

There's nothing in your xorg.conf
No "Driver" line,
no Modes, its blank

If you have nvidia or ati card, you can try envyng
(i've not tested it with intel video cards - some laptops has this)

2008/11/15 Knute Johnson <knute2008 at www.knutejohnson.com>:
> Szymon Marciniak wrote:
>> What is your grapgic card?
>> And how your xorg.conf
>>
>> 2008/11/14 Knute Johnson <knute2008 at www.knutejohnson.com>:
>>> I installed Ubuntu on my older laptop but the only options for screen
>>> resolution are 800x600 and 640x480.  I ran 1024x768 with XP and Fedora.
>>>  Any ideas how to get there?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
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> xorg.conf is below.  I don't know what the video card is in the laptop
> but I know it is capable of much higher resolutions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> knute...
>
> # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
> #
> # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
> # values from the debconf database.
> #
> # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
> # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
> #
> # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
> # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
> # package.
> #
> # Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
> # in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
> # here are ignored.
> #
> # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
> # again, run the following command:
> #   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>        Identifier      "Default Screen"
>        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
>        Device          "Configured Video Device"
> EndSection
>
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