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With Dapper Drake, you can take this route:

1) Install Alien (sudo aptitude install alien)
2) wget -c http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/8211/eng/dri-I915-v1.1-20041217.i386.rpm
3) sudo alien dri-I915-v1.1-20041217.i386.rpm
4) sudo dpkg -i dri-i915_v1.1-20041218_i386.deb

Should help out with installing the correct Intel Driver for you, and allow you to get the proper resolutions. Just remember to restart your x-server after installing it :)

Hope this helps!
Justin

Hey. I followed your instructions and installed Alien (having to insert the install CD along the way). Anyway I tried step 2 through the terminal and and keep getting 404 Not Found Errors, it seems as though Intel isn't hosting the file anymore. Do you know any other mirros or hosts of the file?

Thanks.

Hmm, I was able to install it, though maybe there's just some weird reason you couldn't get it. I've uploaded it to my own webspace, so you can just copy and paste the following line into a terminal window:

wget -c http://members.shaw.ca/jbeerwart/dri-I915-v1.1-20041217.i386.rpm

Hope this helps!
Justin

Thanks. The link worked, must have been something on my end earlier which conflicted. I followed the rest of your steps and restarted X-Server (CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE). I proceeded to log back in to the terminal and again run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg', but it doesn't appear in the driver list (I'm under the impression that it would appear as 'i915', as such is the filename). Should it appear there, under that name? Or am I totally in the wrong ball park?

Much apologises for the ongoing hounding, but it really does show how dedicated the xUbuntu support community is.

I haven't installed it myself, but I would assume that it appears as Intel or something along those lines. No worries, this isn't hounding. The community is always happy to help people get everything set up to their liking :)

Regards,
Justin

I took a blind stab and guessed that the driver was the one named "imstt". I proceeded to fill out the reconfiguration options and as I selected the colour depth I recieved another error.

(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error.
No screens found.

X10 = fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

I guess that was the wrong driver then. Looks as though Im going to have to do a little process of elimination...

Thank you very much, you pointed me in the right direction. I'll post the instructions of EXACTLY how I achieved the fix for future reference.

1. Visit http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html
2. Download the relevant patch. (In my case I downloaded 845patch-0.3.2.i386.rpm
3. Install Alien (sudo aptitude install alien)
4. sudo alien 845patch-0.3.2.i386.rpm
5. sudo dpkg 845patch-0.3-3_i386.deb
6. sudo 845patch x (x being the amount of KB you want to assign to Video RAM)
7. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg (Filling in the above value you used for VRAM
8. Restart X (CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE)
9. Enjoy.

Note: Whenever the system is restarted the resolution is set back to default. I'm currently working on trying to create some sort of a boot item so its automatically applied at system startup.

Thanks Neolithium (Justin Payne), that solved my question.