Laptop Screen Res After Kubuntu Install

Im new to the Linux world and just install Kubuntu 11.10 on an old Dell Inspiron 1100. On start up there is a blue box in the middle of the screen for a split second. The desktop then appears in the upper left corner of the screen and goes about 2/3 across the display. To the right is a black area and on the bottom are a white area under the desktop and a grey fading to white area to the lower right. The cursor does not flow into any of these areas. I have gone through and tried some to the other suggestions from related questions. Either its not working or I'm not doing something right. Probably the latter.
Here is the result of my: sudo lshw -C display
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:11 memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:f6f80000-f6ffffff

Thanks in advance. -Rob