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[Vic Main <240916@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To quote maJongg..

"I have been hit by the "monitor not detected" problem too, . I think the problem is very common, but is often mis-diagnosed as a "driver issue".
"The problems has become a virtual show-stopper" It was that for me. I tried to fix the problem (or at least get around it at least 2 years ago) I was running 

Ubuntu 8.x, and ended up with a 800x600 resolution. I recently installed
version 10.04 and tried to resolve this problem again. At least the
generic driver would do 1024x768. I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 with
AGP8X card, and found out how to get around this problem.

I have to echo the sentiments of majongg and TheZorch regarding this
problem hindering the adoption of Linux, it certainly did for me!!. I
spent at least a full day trying to get my monitor to display correctly.
Thanks to the generous help from the forum.

The main problem (let alone the monitor not being recognized), is that the software wildly guesses at the range of the HSYNC and VSYNC
which it writes to the xorg.conf file.

Thanks, Vic

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can't configure display resolution (monitor, graphics card) manually in gui
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