Had to figure that out for Ubuntu 9.10,

http://www.penguinsunbound.com/User:Goeko/Ubuntu_9.10

Good luck.

(Same thing mentioned earlier, just a little more detailed instructions)

==>brian.

Brian Wall wrote:
> Fellow geeks,
> 
> I've been tinkering around with Ubuntu.  By default, Ubuntu's (any
> modern distro applies, really) Xorg runs without a config file.
> Presumably, it detects all your hardware on the fly and amazingly it
> does a good job (compare that to XFree 3.x... yuck!)
> 
> Problems arise when the box can't detect the hardware.  For instance,
> running thorugh a KVM switch.  Now instead of detecting my Dell flat
> panel and pushing 1280x1024, I get a measly 800x600 and no option to
> change it.  What I would like to do is set up Ubuntu running against
> my flat panel, the way I like, and then dump the currently running
> config to a config file so I can force that configuration when I'm
> running through the KVM.  Anyone know if this is possible?
> 
> Alternately I fire up Knoppix, which still uses a config file and use
> that to start tweaking.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
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