Help with resolution settings

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/09/2010 14:38, Michael Haney wrote:
> This is what I put in my xorg.conf file.  Its from Jaunty, the last
> version of Ubuntu that allowed you to manually change your monitor
> settings from the screen resolution window.  The monitor I have a
> 21inch Sun Microsystems CRT that supports VGA.
>    

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> The point though is that I SHOULD NOT have to edit my xorg.conf file
> at all.  I should be able to click on a Hardware or Monitor tab in the
> screen resolution window and select the monitor from a list just like
> you could in Jaunty.
>    

Unless I have misunderstood some statements, it has nothing to do with 
Ubuntu, or any other distro, but all to do with Xorg itself where the 
devs moved to use auto-configuration at boot time.

BC

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