No system-config-display, so what now?

[Bill Davidsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 14:01 -0800, w bugar wrote:
> 
>>>>> Actually, there is a system-config-display, but
>>> you need to grab
>>>>> it via "yum install
>>> system-config-display" (they must have saved
>>>>> at least 8K on the media by not including that
>>> :-).
>> Since there was about a gig of space on the DVD, I am truly stunned by this comment. Several days of "install" for 8K (still not done)?
>> I am stunned, really.
> ----
> you are confusing someone's off-hand remark to be a comment that has
> validity...it doesn't.
> 
> The intent of the newer versions of xorg project is for the underlying
> daemons to build the video configuration on the fly and thus be
> adaptable for things that change like monitors, keyboard, etc. without
> the need to specifically configure them.
> 
> It probably doesn't work in all cases.
> 
Forget "probably" on that. ;-)

I haven't tried using just Xorg yet, if that's what the install uses it has issues.

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