Thanks for the tip, but this was hopeless. I don't understand how, but the
YellowDog and Mandrake distributions manage to configure X fine on my
machine, during the installation, without me having to answer _ANY_
questions. The only reason I am not using them is that I can't get my
wireless card working there.
Using the suggested command below presented a sequence of questions that I
tried to answer as best I could. The result was no better than I had before.
if YellowDog and Mandrake does it and Ubuntu doesn't, then there is
possibly a bug somewhere in the way Ubuntu does things. You should
file a bug report, or look in Malone to see if there is already one in
there like yours.
I would guess that /var/log/Xorg.0.log has some hints of what's
going wrong. but without seeing that log, or your xorg.conf file you
get at installation, it's difficult to say.
--
Daniel Robitaille
resolution of your monitor. This is a bug (and a fairly serious
regression) and should be reported as such.