X11/Xorg are hard to deal with at the best of times.
Now there are a couple things you can do. One would be to familiarize yourself with the Xorg and write a new config by hand. It may not sound like much fun, but you'll be better able to handle such issues in the future.
Another option is to let dpkg re-create the default config for you. You can do this by running:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
If that doesn't work out the way you'd hoped and you have the nvidia proprietary drivers installed, you should be able to have them create a more better config that takes full advantage of your video card. The command for that is:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
Now remember, in order to see any changes, you are going to have to restart Xorg. Depending on your distro and version, you can do this by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
, but you'll have a guaranteed restart of Xorg by logging out. If you're level of FUD is high enough, just restart.
Good luck and I hope this helps.
PS- I recently helped my brother with this same problem. Here are some sample configs should you decide to hand-write/edit your config: sample1 sample2