<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Caroll and welcome If your monitor and keyboard setup are recognized by X, thorough the new nefarious ways, then you do not need to have an xorg.conf. If you need something non-basic, then you may choose to download and run system-config-display (A gui version will appear in Gnome) or you may choose to create your own xorg.conf. I for one had to create one for my system. Regards Leslie --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs@earthlink.net> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: xorg.conf To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 12:32 PM <pre>On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:01:12 -0600 Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 16:49:18 +0000, > James Harrison <jamesaharrisonuk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am new to the list (I joined today). > > > > Can someone tell me why Fedora 10 does not create > > an /etc/X11/xorg.conf as standard? > > Because in theory it doesn't need to. > >From wikiquote (including footnote), the famous philosopher Yogi Berra is supposed to have said: "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. * This has also been attributed to computer scientist Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut and scientist Albert Einstein." -- cmg (who once saw Yogi hit a home run on a pitch that was actually in the strike zone) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines </pre></blockquote></td></tr></table>