On 19/11/09 21:40, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Pardon my abysmal ignorance, but what is supposed to replace xorg.conf and all the wonderful X stuff behind it? Is there a RTFM on this?
Excellent question. The only thing I know is that it is now - in 11.2 - all done with "smoke and mirrors" and that it is all done "magically" at the time of booting the system.
It is done "on the fly", at run time.
Where the information is located to do all this is not known to me.
But then, Herr Wernher von Baun, is posting that creating an xorg.conf, using sax2, and whatever you put into it, will be used to get your video screen working correctly. Or so I read what Herr von Braun has stated.
Yes, that is correct.
"Simply" create an xorg.conf file, and put there whatever you need to override the automatic detection. The file doesn't need to contain the entire configuration, just the changed "lines" or sections.
I don't know if it is documented how exactly to do it, but it has been known for months, in the factory list at least.
Hello:
1. I think this whole thing is crazy.
Now now. We must not be negative here, must we? The devs involved with oS need POSITIVE feedback like, "Oh. I think, just my opinion of course, but I can see a little problem...what can I do, please, in helping you to solve it, please? Would posting yet another bug report be of any assistance, please?" Now THAT's the way to tackle all this :-) .
I met this type of configuring screen in Xubuntu 9.04 and it (configuration) just failed.
Ooooh, you've just spake the wrong words, old boy :-( : *Ubuntu. This mail list's police patrol (one special-agent patrolman to be exact) may now stomp on you saying that this a mail list about openSUSE and *not* about *Ubuntu. Protect your bum for the next several weeks.....
It set the screen always to 1280x960 at 60 Hz and after each login I had to set it manually to 1024x768 at 85 Hz; I don't have to mention how annoying it was. Debian with LXDE also did the same, fortunately it could remember screen setting for users but the login screen still looked terribly. I could not find out how to set screen resolution and frequency globally.
2. >"Simply" create an xorg.conf file, and put there whatever you need to override the automatic
detection. The file doesn't need to contain the entire configuration, just the changed "lines" or sections.
I don't think that making a working xorg.conf file is that simple. Especially if one does not know exactly which of those many lines does what. If I understand correctly sax2 was removed from 11.2. How can I make an xorg.conf file then from scratch? It would be ridiculous (and also very bad) if the application that could be used for creating an xorg.conf file easily was removed from the distro.
3. There is no problem until the system detects and conigures your graphics card and screen correctly AND according to your needs. But how to fix it if it doesn't? (Eg. you don't like 1600x1200 and want 1024x768 instead). Strange that there is no howto or manual on this issue.
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