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

From: Douglas McIntosh <ffdjm@alaska.net>
Date: Fri Nov 05 2010 - 16:45:24 AKDT

I had so much trouble with updates that I returned to an early kernel.
I had a new monitor that did not autoconfigure, so I had to write my own
xorg.conf. So yes it can be done.

read-edid is what you need to get monitor information.

Douglas

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:41:48PM -0400, Christopher Howard wrote:
> 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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