On screens, docs and (un)gentlemen

I have now converted to the ubuntu religion.

One of my recent adventures concerned fitting a gigantic screen (1920x1200, 24 inch) monitor to my home workstation - a small box with a 915 Intel built-in chipset.

It didn't work.

Somehow, it insisted on coming up in 1600x1200 mode, giving everything a "stretched" appearance. On my usual solution (googling), I came up with a lot of tricks involving "915resolution", a tool for tweaking this graphics card.

Didn't work either.

More reading.... someone mentions a "new driver". Can I use this? YES!

Solution:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

answer default to *everything*, but enable 1920x1200 explicitly.

Voila! Now it works!

Lesson for the day:
There's tons of Linux documentation out there. Most of it is not up-to-date.