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[Oliver Kluge <685516@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With some googling I found a way to circumvent the problem, adapting
ways described in http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/RandR I created the file
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/45custom_xrandr-settings using values I computed
issuing cvt.

xrandr --newmode "1280x960_105.00" 187.00 1280 1376 1512 1744 960 963 967 1023 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 1280x960_105.00
xrandr --newmode "1600x1200_85.00" 235.00 1600 1728 1896 2192 1200 1203 1207 1262 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 1600x1200_85.00
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1600x1200_85.00

This will circumvent the problem. A little cumbersome, and showing some
oddities: X starts in 800x600, so login dialog is in this resolution.
After logging in, the desktop initializes in 800x600 and is immediately
changed to 1600 x 1200, which makes the background go into four tiles.
As the desktop recognizes this it rescales the background.

So all in all: Speaking in ITIL terms this is _not_ a solution, but
merely a workaround. It is still my firm belief that a modern operating
system _must_ have a GUI that allows manual mode setting if the
automatic procedure fails, and it must fail on each and every analog
monitor...

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Title:
  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is unable to handle analog monitors (resolution cannot be set)