What video driver?

[H.S.]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:08:33 +0900
> Craig Hagerman <craighagerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The newest Ubuntu (9.04 alpha 6) does not use xorg.conf file.
>> What is Jaunty using then if there is no xorg.conf ?
> 
> It doens't use anything AIUI, it just uses sensible defaults for the
> hardward it detects, which works for most people. 
> This way you only need to specify a xorg.conf file if you need to force
> xorg to use specific parameters for you particular, non-standard use
> case.

I have seen the same behavior in Hardy as well. With no
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file present, a default one is used which apparently
based on the detected video card and monitor. So this doesn't look like
anything new only in Jaunty.

Regards.
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