Jaunty Joy

[Derek Broughton]

Michael Haney wrote:

> read-edid only reports what information is there.  Users then have to
> make the xorg.conf changes themselves manually.
> 
> What would be nice is a software tool which reads the edid information
> and then edits the xorg.conf file so x.org utilizes the right
> resolutions and refresh rates for that display. 

It's called xorg...  It _mostly_ does that, which is why we have much 
smaller xorg.conf files (or even no xorg.conf) than we used to.

> Perhaps even a tool
> that lets a user select what model monitor they have, it then queries
> an online database to find its proper specs and edits those into the
> xorg.conf file and makes a backup copy which can be restored later if
> the settings were wrong.

That _would_ be useful, for those monitors not physically capable of telling 
the system their specs.