[aklug] Maintain your own xorg.conf?

Is it possible to maintain your own xorg.conf file these days? Do any of you guys actually do that manually? (And actually know what you're doing...?) Reason I ask is because I am trying to learn how to do it on my own (for my certification test) but I'm not even getting out of the gate.

If I have no xorg.conf file, then X autoconfigures itself with no issues. But if I run Xorg -configure (to try to get a workable xorg.conf to start with) X just crashes (segfault) before starting up and doesn't even give me the xorg.conf file. The xorg.conf.example doesn't seem anything like my system.

Also, is there a tool you can use to get information about you monitor and its available resolution rates, etc.? The book I am reading mentions xdpyinfo and xwininfo, but these apparently only work /after/ X11 has already started, and it does not seem very handy to only know about tools that can only be used if X is /already/ configured correctly. It seems like if Xorg can automagically figure the hardware out, there should be some way for me to see the details from the command-line.

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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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