[aklug] Re: Maintain your own xorg.conf?

* Christopher Howard <cmhoward@frigidcode.com> [101104 16:55]:

> 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.

 Chris, for starters - what OS are you using?

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Tim 
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