Screen resolution issue SIS chipset

[ohjrson]

Right, yeah, I know that, see here-in lies the issue. It does not have any other selection but 1 resolution 640x800, no other selections. But, I noticed when I tried to go in and change my password (like I said before) the resolution was set properly, 1280 x920. I do a reboot after unsuccessfully changing the password and it is back to the larger screen resolution. (I remembered my password BTW) I have tried everything I can think of to get the resolution to a higher res but it just does not go there for the original boot up. If I put in the live usb it will work then too but not from the hard drive. Really perplexed here. IT (the laptop) is an AMD processed computer. Could that be an issue? Do I need to edit the grub so it stays in the right resolution?

Here is what I have, I think I need a different driver than what LL 3.8 is loading, even though research has said that it should have it.

  *-display UNCLAIMED   
      description: VGA compatible controller
      product: 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
      vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
      physical id: 0
      bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
      version: 00
      width: 32 bits
      clock: 66MHz
      capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller cap_list
      configuration: latency=0
      resources: memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:e2100000-e211ffff ioport:a000(size=128)