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  1. Bug #164471
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 164471

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January (january-weiner) wrote :

OK, looks that this is more of a misunderstanding than a bug. Apparently the external screen management is now taken over by the XrandR extension of Xorg. There is a detailed description here:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_6.06.1_on_a_ThinkPad_R60e#Using_xrandr_with_Ubuntu_7.10

I found this command to be particularily useful:

xrandr --output VGA --mode 1024x768