Laptop setup assistance

[storkus at storkus.com]

Carlton, attaching a copy of the output of "dmesg" and "lspci -v" would
be very helpful so at least we know what hardware you're using.  Laptops
are notorious for being difficult to support in free software because of
the weird hardware they come with.  And if this laptop is brand new, add
to that lack of drivers for new hardware.

So the bottom line is we need to know what kind of video and audio
"cards" you have in your system to be able to help.

Mike

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:14:44 -0700, "Carlton Brooks"
<linux at carltonbrooks.net> said:
> I just purchased a Gateway P-6822 Laptop. I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on it 
> and now have some issues.
> 
> First the laptop has a 17" WXGA screen. It has a resolution of 1440x900. 
> When Ubuntu is displayed on the desktop the tool bars only cover about 
> 75% the width of the screen, though if a program is opened it covers the 
> entire screen.
> I have gone into the xorg.conf to look at the settings and do not know 
> what to change if anything to take advantage of the wide screen.
> 
> My second issue is that I have no sound. I have read in the forums that 
> I possibly need to reconfigure the alsa drivers. I have attempted to do 
> so based on the Ubuntu forum recommendation but no luck I get errors 
> when attempting to compile and do a make install.
> 
> Can anyone offer some direction to me.
> 
> Thanks
> Carlton Brooks
> 
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