I am using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and I recently installed it on a Toshiba Satellite A25-S207 laptop. When it finished it just had a small screen, instead of full. Any help is much appreciated!
Allow me to direct you here:
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=961669[/url]
They probably know the answer
do you have the right drivers for your video card installed?
I'm not sure I am getting a hell of a lot of updates right now but I am thinking I may have to go through the terminal.
system > administration> hardware drivers
you'll be able to install the latest driver for your card there, if there are any available (some really old cards require you to use vesa, but so long as the computer is newer than 10 years old you shouldn't have to worry about that)
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;24255856]system > administration> hardware drivers
you'll be able to install the latest driver for your card there, if there are any available (some really old cards require you to use vesa, but so long as the computer is newer than 10 years old you shouldn't have to worry about that)[/QUOTE]
There isn't any there... o_O
type [b]lspci | grep -i VGA[/b] in the terminal, you might have some funky card.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;24255940]type [b]lspci | grep -i VGA[/b] in the terminal, you might have some funky card.[/QUOTE]
VGA? I am on a laptop not your standard desktop monitor.
it doesn't matter, I don't think: iirc it uses vga as a generic term for video adapter.
derek@derek-laptop:~$ lspci/grep -i VGA
bash: lspci/grep: No such file or directory
derek@derek-laptop:~$ lspci / grep -i VGA
Usage: lspci [<switches>]
Basic display modes:
-mm Produce machine-readable output (single -m for an obsolete format)
-t Show bus tree
Display options:
-v Be verbose (-vv for very verbose)
-k Show kernel drivers handling each device
-x Show hex-dump of the standard part of the config space
-xxx Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-b Bus-centric view (addresses and IRQ's as seen by the bus)
-D Always show domain numbers
Resolving of device ID's to names:
-n Show numeric ID's
-nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names & numbers)
-q Query the PCI ID database for unknown ID's via DNS
-qq As above, but re-query locally cached entries
-Q Query the PCI ID database for all ID's via DNS
Selection of devices:
-s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]] Show only devices in selected slots
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>] Show only devices with specified ID's
Other options:
-i <file> Use specified ID database instead of VGA
-p <file> Look up kernel modules in a given file instead of default modules.pcimap
-M Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)
PCI access options:
-A <method> Use the specified PCI access method (see `-A help' for a list)
-O <par>=<val> Set PCI access parameter (see `-O help' for a list)
-G Enable PCI access debugging
-H <mode> Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
-F <file> Read PCI configuration dump from a given file
ok thats what I got
Scratch that- problem fixed.
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