increase resolution above max in ubuntu 10.04

[linuxnewbie2011]

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my laptop has no video drivers for it and the resolution is huge and it needs to be 1024x800 not 800x600 maximum

[jmadero]

laptop model or video card model? ATI, Nvidia, Intel?? Also why are you using 10.04 instead of 11.04, a lot has changed and this issue may be resolved with updated software. 11.04 is stable, it moves past gnome but most people haven't had a serious issue with that. At least upgrade to 10.10 since that's still using Gnome 2 and see if that solves the issue without messing around with xorg a bunch

[linuxnewbie2011]

I have upgraded and that has worked for me thanks

[jmadero]

glad to hear it. I try to keep my machine up to the newest version in general just because issues are taken care of throughout version that "will be fixed eventually" in the LTS version. I don't agree with the philosophy as I think LTS should be the first thing to get fixed as its name implies a more comprehensive supported OS but it is what it is. I'm sure your problem would have been fixable in 10.04 but it would have taken a lot of googling to update packages or manually altering xorg which is usually no fun. Hope you enjoy Linux, it can be a hard transition OS but Ubuntu is a good place to start