need to change non-existant xorg.conf

[stan]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:46:59 +0800
Ian Chapman <packages at amiga-hardware.com> wrote:

> On 25/06/09 21:06, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Using xrandr I get the following error message. I have been told
> > that I need to change the virtual screen size in xorg.conf to fix
> > this.
> >
> > however, when I went to do this I found that the file does not
> > exist anywhere on my PC.  Anyone know how I can have a working
> > X/KDE system (I'm using it now with kmail to write this) without
> > this file.
> 
> Modern Xorg doesn't usually need one. It probes the hardware and
> display system to work out what is required and applies a set of
> defaults. If you have additional requirements or need to change any
> of the behaviour then just create /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the
> required settings and it will use it.
> 
> 
I think there are two ways to ask X to generate a xorg.conf

Install system-config-display and run it.

Run Xorg --configure