Silly question re X

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Oct 6 14:14:19 UTC 2008


Karl Auer wrote:

> This is probably a really silly question but:
> 
> Where the heck is the rest of xorg.conf?

Gone :-)  It's mostly not needed because X probes the hardware.
 
> It used (Feisty) to be much bigger, with sections defining all sorts of
> things, now (Hardy) it is tiny.
> 
> How do I go about configuring things like Xinerama, dualhead etc now?

"System Settings" "Monitor and Display" - and then, if your hardware is like
mine, hours of playing with the _resulting_ xorg.conf before you get one
that really works.  
-- 
derek





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