[ubuntu-uk] UDS Questions for the podcast

[alan c]

Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A few of us are heading out to Prague for FOSSCamp [0] and the Ubuntu
> Developer Summit [1] next week. 
> 
> There will be quite a few Ubuntu developers, community members and
> Canonical staff out there and we'd like to take the opportunity to talk
> to a few of them when they have time, and if willing.
> 
> We have already asked a few developers, staff and other community
> contributors if they would speak to us, and have had quite a positive
> response so far, but clearly as this is a community show, we'd like to
> get suggestions from the LoCo team too!
> 
> If any of you have any burning questions you would like us to ask,
> people you'd like us to talk to, or topics you'd like us to discuss -
> either with the developers in general, or specific individuals, please
> either comment on this thread or email us at podcast at ubuntu-uk.org .
> 
> Many thanks!
> Al.
> 
> [0] http://fosscamp.org/
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Intrepid


I am at something of a loss to understand the new xorg.conf with its 
minimal content.
It obviously has powerful magic and seems to be based on xorg version 7.3

It generally works well (!) However, I have a couple of machines which 
are beasts when it comes to graphics setup and I have not found a way 
of understanding enough about the new approach to do anything with 
xorg.conf, or even really examine what is going on, or get some 
visibility. With these machines, the situation for me is worse with 
the new approach, not better.
dpkg reconfigure etc etc does not help either.

In the problem laptop I have simply had to replace the complete 
xorg.conf with a very old file which I find still works ok.

Any related information would be most useful
-- 
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391