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From: ray 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: LCD monitor
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:37:03 -0700
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:49:58 +0000, Chris Game wrote:

> On 2007-03-08, ray  wrote:
>> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:56:13 +0000, elaich wrote:
>>
>>> I am preparing to buy a flat screen LCD monitor. Are there any 
>>> known issues with these in Ubuntu?
>>
>> Yes. The issues are: they work and they don't need an 'install CD'.
> 
> What they do need is a quick run (or three) of dpkg-reconfig 
> (usually)!

That is one option. Last time I switched monitors, I hand edited the
/etc/X11/xorg.conf for the new monitor before I took it down to install
the new hardware. System then booted up with no problem.
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