No xorg.conf status?

[Rick Stevens]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:07 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>>> Keith Roberts wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
>>>>> From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at hi.is>
>>>>> Subject: No xorg.conf status?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just wondering if we are still going ahead with removing the need of 
>>>>> xorg.conf
>>>>> for F11 and what's the overall status of that quest.
>>>>>
>>>>> So far the only problem(s) I have encountered is after installation I 
>>>>> need to
>>>>> go to System --> Hardware ---> Keyboard and set the layout of the 
>>>>> keyboard to Icelandic.
>>>>>
>>>>> And I need to have it in dual monitor setup..
>>>>>
>>>>> Is anyone else testing this or am I the only one..
>>>> So what happens if you need to use X on a non-standard setup that is 
>>>> not detected properly by X?
>>>>
>>>> I have problems already on F9 with my X installation not computing the 
>>>> correct font sizes when I use a virtual desktop size. Please see this 
>>>> bug report for more:
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460895
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Keith Roberts
>>> "not detected properly by X"
>>> You mean when you set the virtual size
>>> out site the supported resolution by the driver...
>>>
>>> What's the output of xrandr ?
>>>
>>> Is this dual monitor setup?
>> It should also be noted that over on ye ol' fedora-list, there
>> are several people complaining that X locks out their keyboards (both
>> USB and standard PS/2) if they don't keep their old Xorg.conf files.
>> One of them is planning to file a BZ report.  Look for a bug reported
>> by Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>.
> 
> In fact I ended up adding to an existing bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456680
> 
> Note that the original bug was filed against Xorg-1.4.99, which I had no
> problems with, but it got me when I updated to Xorg-1.5 (from
> updates-testing). The bug seems to be related to the new(ish) evdev
> input device handler, which replaces the old kb and mouse handlers and
> is set to become standard in F10 according to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EvdevInputDriver so I have my
> fingers crossed :-)
> 
> However AFAIK this doesn't seem related to problems with monitors.

Ah, good to see you're on this list as well, Patrick.  I was just trying
to make sure the Rawhide gang knew about it.
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