Definitely the card and the screen not communicating properly. menu>System>Pup-Sysinfo>Devices>Display>Video-Info is saying Actual rendering on monitor: Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (388x247 millimeters) Depth: 24 planes when dell says display size is 383x245 millimeters. A small number but might be ...

I just remembered, back then, in order to get the max resolution, I had to set the horizontal and vertical refresh rates of the monitor on xorg.conf. Would that be the case here or is that only for external monitors and not for a laptop screen? What would be the refresh rates of laptop screens? User...

Report below. I have downloaded tahrpup 6.0.5 and will try it next time. VIDEO REPORT: xenialpup, version 7.5 Chip description: VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV370/M22 [Mobility Radeon X300] Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 14...

Done that previously and it always gave me a min of 640x480 and a max of 1024x768. Current setting 1024x768. Nothing changed.

Well, I'm back and the laptop is back on my desk and of course I've been messing around with it and still with no success. Then, for the first time, I went in to bios setting and found one thing that might be the issue. On video setting, there is an option to expand the screen. By default it is enab...

Ahh, understood. So radeon should work on all cards then unless, the card is really really old I ask my friend where he got the laptop and come to find out they bought it from his wife's work where they replaced components including video card. Explains why it had ATI X300 when the manual we downloa...

I believe it does as well coz when xorg.conf was set to use radeon as the driver, I ran the 'lspci -k" command, it showed me radeon as being used but I don't understand why Xorg.0.log always showed VESA no matter what I did. When typed pfix=ram on boot, the first run "setup" window sh...

Tried tahrpup as suggested and installed amd driver using quickpet and got black screen. Played with it for a good while with no luck and had to stop. Returned the laptop today with xenial 64. 1024x768 wasn't bad really. Sometimes we just have to accept defeat. :( 8Geee - sorry the pc was returned a...

Well, I ran dmesg and did not see any error related to radeon driver. At least we got his computer going and usable again. He'll be able to browse web safer, email and use libreoffice.

Thanks all for your help. Really appreciate it!

This is what menu>System>Pup-Sysinfo>Devices>Display>Video-Info says: VIDEO REPORT: xenialpup64, version 7.5 Chip description: VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV370/M22 [Mobility Radeon X300] Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 144...

Another question Am I stuck with a 1024x768 resolution because of modeset=0? I've been researching and found a option I can add on the kernel line: video=radeonfb:1440x900. They said you can combine the command with nomodeset but I still get the low res. I've also tried the vga=799 and same result. ...

Understand the KMS more.

Yes, it is an ATI Mobility X300. Strange coz all the online searched I did resulted on this laptop having an NVidia card. Did not find, not one, having ati card on them. This must be ONE in a million LOL

Thanks bigpup....that did the trick So.trying to understand, is it because new distros use "radeon" as the driver by default and what you did was force it to use "ati" instead because of how old the video card is? Would it have given the same result if I added "blacklist=rad...

I have a Dell Precision M90 that comes with Intel Centrino dual core 2Ghz, 1GB ram, ATI X300 video card. A 64 bit processor and PAE capable This is a friend of mine who ask if I can revive it for him. I downloaded the latest lubuntu, I figured puppy linux will be a little to technical for him at thi...

Thanks bigpup. That did the trick. I'm using Precise by the way. Also on the list of installed packages, I saw pwidgets, why I missed it the first time I couldn't tell you and I don't remember what I did to install it, maybe from a pet package like you said.

Thank you Semme as well.

I honestly cant remember if I installed using PET. Its been a very long time, the last time I installed something. I will check it tonight after work and let you know. Thank you very much

searching pwidget on package manager didn't give me anything. Also looked into removing from "remove built-in package" and it's not on the list.

I tried playing with the pwidgets 1.9-6 and now I could not remove it on my screen on the top right corner. I tried removing it by selecting the widgets and clicking remove on the menu "Edit>>Remove widget", but this did not work at all. Instead, it added another instance of the same widge...

Although xorg.conf still works, it is recommended to create and save configuration files under "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d". You can create individual configurations for you card, monitor, display, etc.... Try this, create and save as monitor.conf under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d folder. S...

mount the flash drive: "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1"
they try the command again: "unetbootin installtype=usb targetdrive=/mnt/sdb1"