No xorg.conf status?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 19:31:10 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:07 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> > Keith Roberts wrote:
> >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> >>
> >>> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> >>> From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at hi.is>
> >>> Subject: No xorg.conf status?
> >>>
> >>> Just wondering if we are still going ahead with removing the need of 
> >>> xorg.conf
> >>> for F11 and what's the overall status of that quest.
> >>>
> >>> So far the only problem(s) I have encountered is after installation I 
> >>> need to
> >>> go to System --> Hardware ---> Keyboard and set the layout of the 
> >>> keyboard to Icelandic.
> >>>
> >>> And I need to have it in dual monitor setup..
> >>>
> >>> Is anyone else testing this or am I the only one..
> >>
> >> So what happens if you need to use X on a non-standard setup that is 
> >> not detected properly by X?
> >>
> >> I have problems already on F9 with my X installation not computing the 
> >> correct font sizes when I use a virtual desktop size. Please see this 
> >> bug report for more:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460895
> >>
> >> Kind Regards,
> >>
> >> Keith Roberts
> > "not detected properly by X"
> > You mean when you set the virtual size
> > out site the supported resolution by the driver...
> > 
> > What's the output of xrandr ?
> > 
> > Is this dual monitor setup?
> 
> It should also be noted that over on ye ol' fedora-list, there
> are several people complaining that X locks out their keyboards (both
> USB and standard PS/2) if they don't keep their old Xorg.conf files.
> One of them is planning to file a BZ report.  Look for a bug reported
> by Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>.

In fact I ended up adding to an existing bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456680

Note that the original bug was filed against Xorg-1.4.99, which I had no
problems with, but it got me when I updated to Xorg-1.5 (from
updates-testing). The bug seems to be related to the new(ish) evdev
input device handler, which replaces the old kb and mouse handlers and
is set to become standard in F10 according to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EvdevInputDriver so I have my
fingers crossed :-)

However AFAIK this doesn't seem related to problems with monitors.

poc





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