Comment 1 for bug 119458

Hi Ahmed,

Thanks for reporting this bug. As you mention, this is a very common bug that many, many people run into (see bug #3731, which is the master bug report for this issue.)

One of the fixes we're working on is basically what you've described - a GUI xorg configuration tool. This will be available from the System menu, and will also pop up post-install if the installer produced an invalid xorg.conf. You can see a preview of this latter functionality here: http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/BulletProofX/.

If you'd be interested in helping in testing this new functionality, it would be valuable. You would need to install Gutsy and then install the displayconfig-gtk package. Any problems you find (or ideas for improvement) can then be reported to the displayconfig-gtk package in launchpad.