Toshiba Portege 4010 video driver

Asked by lyle

I am a new to this but installed Ubuntu on my Toshiba Portege 4010 and when it rebooted the screen resolution is very small. I have looked at the video display screen from Ubunto but can not change the resolution. Is it possible to get a full screen view?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Can you please give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

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James Faile (mechageo) said :
#2

I also have some of these machines.

The output is as follows:

*-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: bus_master cap_list
     configuration: latency=8
     resources: memory:fc000000-fdffffff memory: fbc00000-fbffffff memory:f8000000-f9ffffff memory:f7ff8000-f7ffffff memory:38000000-3800ffff(prefetchable)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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James Faile (mechageo) said :
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Thanks for the link, I've created a quick guide for solving this issue within the GUI.

First, open the terminal.
Type "sudo nautilus" and hit enter.
Enter your password.

When Nautilus comes up, double click on 'file system' to the left.
Double click on the 'etc' folder.
Double click on the 'X11' folder.
If you have a xorg.conf file in there, open it. If not, right click >Create Document > Empty File and name it xorg.conf.

Paste the following into the xorg.conf file:
(Do not include the rows of *****)

********************************************************************************************

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1"
  Driver "trident"
  BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "Generic Monitor"
  Option "DPMS"
  HorizSync 28-51
  VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Generic Monitor"
 Device "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1"
 SubSection "Display"
     Depth 8
     Modes "1024x768"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
     Depth 16
     Modes "1024x768"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
     Depth 24
     Modes "1024x768"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
     Depth 32
     Modes "1024x768"
 EndSubSection
EndSection

********************************************************************************************
Save the file.
Restart your computer.

Presto!

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