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Hello, kenyon C. :-)

There is no such thing as a "Jaunty graphics card," but we can see what kind you have, so that we can help you out a bit more.

There is a command that you can run from your terminal. Open it up, and type "lspci", then "lspci -v", then "lspci -v | less". You are looking for video controller / vga keywords in above output listing. An example would be:

"00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7150M (rev a2)"

If you like a graphical interface, you can click, on the Ubuntu panel, System --> Preferences --> Hardware Information, but this is more difficult to find, especially if you're not sure of what kind of card you have.

Just do this, and with some help you'll have Steam up and running very soon. :-)

this is for "lspci -v"

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Memory at feb80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 I/O ports at ed98 [size=8]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 I/O ports at ff80 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
 I/O ports at ff60 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
 I/O ports at ff40 [size=32]

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 I/O ports at ff20 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
 Memory at ffa80800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
 Memory behind bridge: fea00000-feafffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
 I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
 I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
 I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
 Memory at feb7fc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
 I/O ports at fe00 [size=8]
 I/O ports at fe10 [size=4]
 I/O ports at fe20 [size=8]
 I/O ports at fe30 [size=4]
 I/O ports at fea0 [size=16]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
 I/O ports at eda0 [size=32]

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0151
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
 I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
 I/O ports at edc0 [size=64]
 Memory at feb7fa00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
 Memory at feb7f900 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Dell Optiplex GX270
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
 Memory at feae0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
 I/O ports at df40 [size=64]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

pimpsta@freekbox:~$

Ok, so you have an Intel - 82865G graphics card.

I have found this link to a tutorial that will most likely help, however before following it, realize that the only problem you're having with your resolution is within a game. If this isn't your problem, or it's a bug, etc. and following this tutorial screws you up, it will likely be a huge headache. Proceed with caution. :-)

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Installing_intel-82865G_drivers

Post here and tell me how everything goes, or what you decide to do.

Best to you, and good luck.