Missing Trident Video Driver

Asked by Felix de Kock

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1400 Series Laptop with native 1024x768 resolution. Ubuntu lists monitor as Unknown, with maximum resolution 800x600. Please help. Based on other posts, I can offer...

"sudo lshw -C display" returns

  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: CyberBlade XPAi1
       vendor: Trident Microsystems
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 82
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=8
       resources: memory:fc000000-fdffffff memory:fbc00000-fbffffff memory:f8000000-f9ffffff memory:f7ff8000-f7ffffff memory:30000000-3000ffff(prefetchable)

"uname -a" returns

Linux mika-laptop 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 22:02:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

"lsb release -a" returns

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

I need to add that I am green / new to the internal workings of Linux. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

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Felix de Kock (lenceus) said :
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I have tried a number of different xorg.conf variations I found on the web, and eventually solved it. Thanks

Felix