[Wolves] ubuntu 9.10 on higrade c2200 trying to get external lcd too work

[Mark Croft]

having problems with my sister laptop , trying too get it too see my
lcd monitor and eventually will be hooked up too 28" lcd tv/monitor.

sarah at sarah-laptop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM
Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)


dmesg

  395.392302] i2c-adapter i2c-0: unable to read EDID block.
[  395.392306] i915 0000:00:02.0: VGA-1: no EDID data
[  395.461501] [drm] DAC-6: set mode 640x480 0
[  395.886295] i2c-adapter i2c-0: unable to read EDID block.
[  395.886299] i915 0000:00:02.0: VGA-1: no EDID data
[  395.892184] i2c-adapter i2c-1: unable to read EDID block.
[  395.892188] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: no EDID data

sarah at sarah-laptop:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1280x800       60.0*+
   1024x768       85.0     75.0     70.1     60.0
   832x624        74.6
   800x600        85.1     72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2
   640x480        85.0     72.8     75.0     59.9
   720x400        85.0
   640x400        85.1
   640x350        85.1


i have seen lots of messages on the forums about editing the xorg.cfg
file but got a bit lost

any help please?