Display resolution won't set above 1024x768

Try changing:

Modes "1600x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

To:

Modes "1600x900_60" "1280x800_60" "1024x768_60" "800x600" "640x480_60"

May help

Putting the _60 after each size didn't have any noticeable effect.

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a

Thanks

  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Intel Corporation
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff(prefetchable)
ioport:4000(size=64)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

Thank you for your assistance.

Try changing:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Configured Video Device"
    Driver "vesa"
EndSection

To:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Configured Video Device"
    Driver "intel"
EndSection

I made the change and restarted.

An error message popped up stating that Ubuntu was running in low graphics mode and:

   (EE)No devices detected

Allowing Ubuntu to come up in low graphics mode, I checked the resolution - 1024x765

Ubuntu Software Center shows that "X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver" is installed.

Using lspci | grep VGA returned
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0116 (rev 09)

Perhaps a special intel driver?

So thinking there was a solution by Mantas Kriaučiūnas responding to bug #590504, I used the Update Manager to get the latest updates (2011-6-09).

The xorg.conf file was as originally described with the driver as "intel".

Still no solution.

The solution to this problem was to load Ubuntu 11.04.

Disappointed that Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support did not support this with appropriate updates.

Also was disappointed that Firefox 4.0 (distributed with Ubuntu 11.04) no longer supports json bookmark files (since all my bookmarks were backed up this way). Actually the new Firefox doesn't even have the "Import and Backup" button said to be in the Library window (is this a problem with the Ubuntu distribution?). Fortunately my Windows machine still had an older version of Firefox and I was able to import into Firefox the json file and have Chrome suck them out of Firefox, whence I created an html bookmark file using Chrome.

I now use Chrome because I can't get the bookmarks into Firefox (because of the missing "Import and backup" button).

Thats because firefox sucks. I believe people tout it as "good" due to habit of using it rather than what is actually decent. When they use ANY other browser they quickly see the browser is rubbish