Does Ubuntu handle device drivers, or otherwise assist with them?

[boothruwindow]

Here is my entire xorg.conf file, which I found to be shockingly non-specific:

# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection


So, is this how they write it to accommodate any monitor screen, with the occasional disasterous handling of certain screen resolution options, or lower-quality flash rendering? Should "Configured Monitor" be replaced with device driver names?

I plugged the search term "driver" into Synaptic, and it returned nothing. Does this mean I'm on my own with finding the right drivers (hey, I had gotten used to Plug N Play), or is there another way Ubunu can help with this?

Thanks.

[jmadero]

Configured monitor is the new way that Ubuntu xorg is working but not necessarily how all monitors work. I have a laptop that says configured monitor but for my external monitor i use nvidia-settings to change my xorg and set it up right. For more information on xorg see:

xorg.conf(5x) manual page

[boothruwindow]

Configured monitor is the new way that Ubuntu xorg is working but not necessarily how all monitors work. I have a laptop that says configured monitor but for my external monitor i use nvidia-settings to change my xorg and set it up right. For more information on xorg see:

xorg.conf(5x) manual page

Thanks for the clue, I found it, and added some model-specific info in the Monitor module, including the horizontal and vertical synchronization (for what it's worth). There's so many factors, it's impossible to guess what may fix the problem, and I'm still have huge black bands which destroy any full-screen renditions of flash videos which don't have that problem when run through Vista on the same machine. Any idea what else I should be looking at adding, somewhere in xorg.conf, or do you know anything about Radeon X1200?