Comment 2 for bug 183913

I have to apology. My original bug report has an error in it.
The video card is actually...
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
My monitor is ViewSonic VS10057

I finally got this to work yesterday by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I added the following subsection to Monitor section...

        Mode "320x240"
                DotClock 15.50
                HTimings 320 328 360 420
                VTimings 240 241 242 250
                Flags "DoubleScan"
        EndMode

...and added the modes line under Screen section to contain the new mode...
                Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "320x240"

How ever all this was incredibly hard and took me one day to
figure out despite my technical orientation. So how should
Joe Average get this done?

Do we have a tag for things that "just work" under Windows,
but don't work in Ubuntu. I suppose this bug should be
tagged with such a tag.