Where are monitor etc. settings kept?

[O. Sinclair]

Martin Laberge wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2008 11:09:01 John Culleton wrote:
>> I am used to the Slackware distro where monitor etc. settings are kept 
>> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  On Ubuntu this file is effectively empty. Are 
>> Ubuntu and Kubuntu alike in this respect? If so, where are the  
>> settings for e.g., refresh rates,  color depth, screen sizes etc. 
>> actually kept? 
>> -- 
>> John Culleton
>> Resources for every author and publisher:
>> http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
>> http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf
>> http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm
>> http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
>>
> 
> I think that the settings are auto-detected by X at startup
> my xorg.conf here, started with all sections empty (except name)
> I just added wat was needed to tweak, if needed.
> 
Mine is near empty, keyboard and touchpad are there and the sections for 
monitor but no settings. And I did a fresh install of 8.04. Is this due 
to the crash-safe (or what it was called) X in 8.04??

Sinclair