{"id":485,"date":"2009-07-19T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T22:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:30:46","slug":"fixing-screen-resolution-in-toshiba-1405-s-151-in-ubuntu-9-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/fixing-screen-resolution-in-toshiba-1405-s-151-in-ubuntu-9-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing screen resolution in Toshiba 1405-S151, in Ubuntu 9.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/abbr>\n

Update. For a better solution, see this blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Our office has a (2002) older Toshiba Satellite 1405-S151. Windows XP is unbearably slow on the laptop, so I wanted to see if it was usable with a current version (9.04) of Ubuntu. The installation went pretty smoothly, and the computer worked much better than with Windows, except for the screen, which was stuck on 800×600 resolution. <\/p>\n

After spending a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how to fix things, I was able to come up with this solution, borrowing from several forum posts.<\/p>\n

The solution requires an edit of the xorg.conf file, which is found here: \/etc\/x11\/xorg.conf<\/p>\n

But first, it is alway a good idea to back up the existing file. My backup was xorg.conf.backup<\/p>\n

Before the change, the relevant text in xorg.conf read like this:<\/p>\n

Section “Device”
\n\tIdentifier\t“Configured Video Device”
\nEndSection<\/p>\n

Section “Monitor”
\n\tIdentifier\t“Configured Monitor”
\nEndSection<\/p>\n

Section “Screen”
\n\tIdentifier\t“Default Screen”
\n\tMonitor\t\t“Configured Monitor”
\n\tDevice\t\t“Configured Video Device”
\nEndSection\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Based upon some things that worked on different computers using the same video card, I finally tried the following, which seems to work.<\/p>\n

Section “Device”
\n Identifier “Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1”
\n Driver “trident”
\n BusID “PCI:1:0:0”
\nEndSection<\/p>\n

Section “Monitor”
\n Identifier “Generic Monitor”
\n Option “DPMS”
\n HorizSync 28-51
\n VertRefresh 43-60
\nEndSection<\/p>\n

Section “Screen”
\n Identifier “Default Screen”
\n Monitor “Generic Monitor”
\n Device “Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1”
\n SubSection “Display”
\n Depth 8
\n Modes “1024×768”
\n EndSubSection
\n SubSection “Display”
\n Depth 16
\n Modes “1024×768”
\n EndSubSection
\nEndSection\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I now have the laptop using the whole screen in a 1024×768 mode. It is much faster and more reliable than anything I could make work in Windows. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update. For a better solution, see this blog. Our office has a (2002) older Toshiba Satellite 1405-S151. Windows XP is unbearably slow on the laptop, so I wanted to see if it was usable with a current version (9.04) of Ubuntu. The installation went pretty smoothly, and the computer worked much better than with Windows, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[58,61,59,57,62,63,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}