Comment 17 for bug 313041

I had basically the same problem on a Gateway MX3210 laptop I was setting up for a friend. The screen resolution was way too big (1600x1400 or something just as absurd) and the sreen was locked in the upper left corner so I couldn't get to the bottom or the right part of the screen. The xorg.conf file in the initial post fixed it for me.

OS: Ubuntu 9.10

lspci -vvv (VGA controller)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device 0216
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
 Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
 Region 1: Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>