Hey there!
Recently, I nuked Windows XP on my *new* laptop, and decided to install Ubuntu Dapper Drake. The install went without a hitch, as did the resulting update.
No problems!
BUT, when I boot into my system now, it only shows me a resolution of 800x600.
I have had a look at the display properties, but to no avail, it only enables me to have the resolution at 800x600, and there is no other option to chnage it. I have tried to gather info about what graphics "card" and driver its using, but I seem to be getting this confused.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this information, possibly update the driver for the adaptor, and then change to a more pleasing resolution, like 1024x768??

Thanks!

Just my two cents, but if you don't know all about your graphics card, and want to redo the X config, what I find works is to type in at a root shell
(if X is running, get ready to close it) 'X -configure' it will detect your hardware and try to configure X.
After runnning 'X -configure' , press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X.