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Setting up Ubuntu-Server with intel GPU for custom resolution

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1 Short Version: How can I disable the DisplayPort and display-cloning completely and only use VGA with a custom resolution of 1920x240 (15KHz) on a CRT. Might involve the creation of a custom xorg.conf Long Version: I'm struggeling with a RetroPie installation in Ubuntu Server that I'd like to use on a SONY PVM 15KHz CRT monitor. As soon as RetroArch kicks in everything is fine, games are displayed via CRTswitchRes-function and look awesome on the screen - just the linux environment gives me a hard time. I chose to use so called "Super Resolutions" which are super-wide (e.g. 1920x240) and look correct when fed to the CRT. In order to be able to navigate the frontend, the console has to be set to something similar and there are some pitfalls which I'd like to work out. First things f...