[steve1online]

Good idea, but the tab and enter did not activate the 'Continue' button. Have we reached a point where we have to give up?

[Agent-X]

In the meantime, if you're using 7.10, you could play with "screens and graphics" found...

System >> Administration >> screens and graphics

Perhaps comparing the screen of the monitor/laptop to a similar laptop/monitor would allow you to change the resolution. This more of a manipulation of the xorg file, but it gets rid of the low resolution if you get a good enough, ad-hoc replacement.

Remember to backup the xorg.conf file first

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-agentxbackup

If you need to put it back...

go into tty with "alt+ctrl+f1"
afterwards, login if necessary, then use the following

sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf-agentxbackup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Reboot the computer after that. Or restart GDM.

[steve1online]

Hi thanks for the info. Curently I am using Ubuntu 7.04. I will upgrade to 7.1 and see if that helps.