Well what used to work doesn't anymore. I have a AGP2 Asus motherboard with a NVidia GForce 7600 AGP2 card. It is no longer being setup at boot time. I have for years used VGA=0x346 to get a 21 inch monitor to have a nice screen. It works in X but not in a console (tty#). It now is not being seen as VESA settings and is only spotted as a VGA card. I have looked at "hwinfo --gfxcard" and hwinfo states the card correctly but doesn't call the correct modules. hwinfo states I need modprobe neuneau and nvidiafb modules. However, they must not be loaded at boot time and therefore, I am getting a black screen and with VGA=(a selection) I get a 21 inch monitor with a 640x480 screen. As I fixed my printer problem by writing a udev rule I guess the video is not found for the same reason. Are there any plans to write a rule for every video card? SaX2 always worked.
The goal of the upstream Xorg devs is making everything X automatic, which with common modern hardware, works in most cases. I can't imagine how multihead/multigfxcard/multidisplay configs could possibly be automatic. Also, automatic depends on hardware characteristics performing according to X dev expectations, which will never be 100%.
Depending on your video card and driver you have nvidia-settings, some ati control center, krandrtray/gnome-xrandr-thingy etc. providing gui alternatives to sax2. So you have other options than automation or handwritten xorg.conf.
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