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# 8  
Old 05-21-2009
This is one of those annoying problems which I cannot solve in 9.04.
I had no problems with 8.04 before.
In fact I posted a couple of messages on these other boards the other day about this problem.
I hope they come out with a patch because they have made Ubuntu 9.04 similar to MAC where we as the users do not have an easy way of customizing anything, it is a package deal and if you dont like it, TUFF!
(this has been my take, of course I am no expert..)

But the xorg.conf has become almost obsolete and then in GUI you dont have any control over the driver settings?!
I think that is terrible.
In any case as you probably already know, in older versions of Ubuntu you could use different refresh rates (as some 1 already said) and raise it from like 60 Hz to 70 (or vice versa) and take care of the problem. But I have not found any solutions yet.
# 9  
Old 05-24-2009
Did you try using different refresh rates in System>Preferences>Screen Resolution?
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