Rawhide install 9/10

Justin Conover justin.conover at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 18:04:30 UTC 2006


On 9/10/06, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:59:02AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > xorg.conf is supposed to be dead minimal.  It figures things out by
> probing
> > the monitor and video card. It will choose the highest agreeable
> resolution
> > to use.  You can override with a personal (IE per user) preference for
> > resolution using System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution.
>
> Unfortunately this is based upon a set of bogus suppositions.
>
> > Your X should Just Work with very minimal content in xorg.conf.  Please
> file a
> > bug with your monitor and video card information if this is not working
> for
> > you.
>
> It doesn't (not because of X but due to the display), and
> system-config-display
> doesn't let me set the resolution so the end result is that gdm isn't
> usable
> and this isn't fixable.
>
> And the bugs about system-config-display are filed, have been for a while.
> Once they get fixed so you can set the gdm mode then I agree the personal
> preferences for modes will be great.
>
> Alan
>
> --


I just want "xorgconfig" back so I can do things manually if I  so desire.
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