Rawhide install 9/10
Paul W. Frields
stickster at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 20:56:17 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 13:04 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
>
>
> On 9/10/06, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:59:02AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > xorg.conf is supposed to be dead minimal. It figures things
> out by probing
> > the monitor and video card. It will choose the highest
> agreeable resolution
> > to use. You can override with a personal (IE per user)
> preference for
> > resolution using System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution.
>
> Unfortunately this is based upon a set of bogus suppositions.
>
> > Your X should Just Work with very minimal content in
> xorg.conf. Please file a
> > bug with your monitor and video card information if this is
> not working for
> > you.
>
> It doesn't (not because of X but due to the display), and
> system-config-display
> doesn't let me set the resolution so the end result is that
> gdm isn't usable
> and this isn't fixable.
>
> And the bugs about system-config-display are filed, have been
> for a while.
> Once they get fixed so you can set the gdm mode then I agree
> the personal
> preferences for modes will be great.
>
> Alan
>
> --
>
> I just want "xorgconfig" back so I can do things manually if I so
> desire.
Sounds like this is going to need to be in the Release Notes.
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