So I have a little 4-foot "church basement" table in our library with two computers on/under it, along with their keyboards and mice (obviously I need a KVM switch - maybe the junkyard will have one next payday). The new computer gets the big monitor, naturally, and the old one gets some old monitor I dug out of the garage. The problem is that ubuntu 7.04 was installed on the old computer when it used the big monitor. Now that I've switched monitors on it, it doesn't recognize the new one.
Solution: boot into recovery mode (or whatever it's called - hit Esc at the right moment during startup), then at the root prompt do this:
dpkg-reconfigure -pcritical xserver-xorg
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