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

Reminds me of Linux in the good old days of 2000. Typing Xfree86.conf and
manually entering the frequences both horizontal and vertically. You need to
get this from the manual of your monitor.
I assume 10 years later that you need to type XOrg.conf (?) to set it. No
one uses XFree86 anymore if it exists at all to run X. The XOrg.conf should
be in /etc/X11 in most if not all distros. I did this with SuSE, Redhat, and
Gentoo.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:

> * 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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