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Hi there,

I installed the u-lite on an old toshiba-satellite notebook. 192 MB Ram 463 MHZ, 6 GB SCSI - drive.
Unfortunately, the desktop does not fill the whole screen. What can I do to solve this problem?

‹ Very new to Linux, having a few problems editing panels/menus & desktop icons ›
Sat, 01/02/2010 - 18:17 | hotmic

maybe this will help?

http://www.u-lite.org/content/question-about-screen-sizeresolution

Sun, 01/03/2010 - 14:05 | noalternative

desktop problems not solved yet

tried the displayconfig-gtk: but cannot set the monitor of my laptop further than 800x600

xrandr -s1024x786 says that this mode is not available

setting a configured Monitor with the HorizSync and RefreshRate in xorg just killed my screen.

I do really miss a driver for this old toshiba satellite 2650 xdvd, 14,4 tft as the generic lcd panel in display config that should match with 1024x768 will not work

Tue, 01/26/2010 - 20:34 | hotmic

you will have to find a driver for it

maybe check with the ubuntu forum boards. http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=332

Wed, 01/27/2010 - 01:06 | noalternative

no driver found

Hi .... on the ubuntu - Forum i did not find any driver but a description for xorg.

my cvt 1024 768 60 says:
#1024x768 59.92 Hz (CVT 0.79M3) hsync: 47.82 kHz; pclk: 63.50 MHz Modeline "1024x768_60" 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync.

and next ... here's a copy of my xorg file. I need help with configuring and making the setting permanent.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Tue, 02/02/2010 - 18:51 | hotmic

no driver found

I have an old Toshiba Satellite 2210 XCDS with about the same specs and my work around is an entry in my boot/grub/menu.lst of vga=789 to get 800x600. You may try vga=793, which should get you the 1024x768 screen. Here is what I did...

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-17-generic
uuid f65ddbbf-0e7d-4e7c-9dc7-3d70ebe38907
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-17-generic root=UUID=f65ddbbf-0e7d-4e7c-9dc7-3d70ebe38907 ro quiet splash quiet vga=789
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-17-generic
quiet

Hope this helps!
Jack

Sat, 02/06/2010 - 04:48 | jack w

Screen Size SOLVED!

Hi there,

here is my solution for old trident grafc cards:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1109133&highlight=trident+cyber...

ther I found a matching x-server file

Thanx @ all helping coments.

Sat, 03/06/2010 - 21:20 | hotmic