<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:26 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@multilink.com.au">jim@multilink.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> <div><font size="2" face="Courier New"></font> </div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New">Hi,</font></span></div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New">Have installed Xubuntu on a old Toshiba Portege and all looks good, except..</font></span></div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New">cannot get the display to use all the screen.  The max resolution avaialbe in settings -> Display is 800x600 but the screen needs 1024x768 to use the full screen.</font></span></div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New">Do I need to edit the config file in /etc/x11...?</font></span></div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New">If so how can I get permisions to edit this file?  Have tried to edit but cannot get write access to this file?</font></span></div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New">Thanks.</font></span></div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font size="2" face="Courier New">Jim</font></span></div></div> </blockquote></div><br>Have you tried setting the resolution to 'default' in Settings->Display? Also, which version of Xubuntu are you running?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vincent<br>