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[harelb <barzilai@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you everyone including Tobias, Nelsson, and Bartosz!

!Before getting to Tobias' message I tried two experiments and
apparently the second one worked! Remember I am completely unfamiliar
with xconf and chrome etc, so I merely experimented blindly. Here is
what I did:

The experiment was only "half" blind since I had, first, Nelsson's post
#13 with his xorg.conf and second, I had the warning from him that
vertRefresh might not work. However I thirdly knew that I had an error
message (as poreted in my message #11 above) when I tried to use
"HorizSync 30.0-100.0" per Bartosz's earlier suggestion, and I saw that
Nelsson's xorg.conf had that line..so I decided to try four experiments:

1) Try Nelsson's file with both the HorizSync line and the VertRefresh
lines both BOTH commented out (I used google to learn that # works here
as it does in some other areas)

(begin)

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"openchrome"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
#	HorizSync	30.0-100.0
#	VertRefresh	50-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

(end)

2) Try Nelsson's file with only VertRefresh line commented out, but with
HorizSync left in

(begin paste)

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"openchrome"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
	HorizSync	30.0-100.0
#	VertRefresh	50-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection


(end paste)

I was worried about this because I had the earlier error (see post #11)
when I left the HorizSync still there..but this seemed to work, so I did
not try the other two experiements, which would have been

3) Leave in VertRefresh but comment-out the HorizSync and 
4) leave in both.

Details of what happened when I used 2) and then Restarted my computer:

I did see something that (unless I was not paying enough attention in
the past) was new, during the computer's lines of self-talk" while
rebooting, and it was something like:

"Filesystem check in progress" (and something about his ESC to stop) and
some line with

/(/dev/[other words here...]

I am pretty sure it was like that a / then a ( and then / and then dev/

Then I got a very very very small display so I knew something changed..I
was able to log in and used

System-->preferences--->Display

and found out it was set to 1680 by 1200

My monitor's official limit is 1024 by 768 (which is still much better than the 800x600 I have been stuck with) 
and fortunately that WAS available in the pulldown menu (unlike before this (fix?)) so I chose that and said YES when it asked me whether to "keep this confirguration"

Then I re-started the computer again and looks like I am  at 1024x768
still...good!

Given that I am a newbie, and given that my time is limited (with my
fulltime work duties now starting again  in a week)  and given that it
took so many hours before (see 6 pages at
http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1361193&page=6 ) I am
tempted to just STAY WITH THIS and not try to change anything else
unless there is a reason why there is a problem with what I have now?
What do you experienced folks think?

And my second question: Should I worry about that "filesystem check in
progress" self-talk by my computer that first time I rebooted after
changing the xorg.conf file? That's my last "pragmatic" question for now
:-)

My third and  last question for now is: will this thread on launchpad
automatically alert the people behind the next version of Ubuntu to try
to make this automatic so no one will be in my shoes again? (reminder--
Dapper Drake understood my monitor perfectly and had no problems showing
the right 1024x768 display...but Heron and Koala both kept me in 800x600
as my higher allowed option, until this, I hope, final fix)

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