is xorg.conf still needed

[Kostas Georgiou]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:58:10AM +0100, Ron Yorston wrote:

> "Jerry James" <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Please don't forget us folks who run Fedora on rack-mounted servers in
> >the back room.  I've got a single monitor, mouse, and keyboard shared
> >via a KVM switch between several machines.  The odds are high that
> >those I/O devices cannot be queried for their properties at X startup
> >time because the KVM switch is set to some other machine.
> 
> +1
> 
> I have a KVM switch between my firewall and desktop machines.  While
> the desktop was booting up I often switched to the console of the
> firewall to do something else, thus making more effective use of my
> time.  With recent versions of Fedora this results in the desktop not
> detecting the monitor and getting a stupid default resolution.

This also happens when the monitor is off, many users here used to
reboot their machine and turn the monitor off before leaving for the
weekend so they were really confused once they turned the monitor
back on to login a few days later. 

Kostas