Wrong screen resolution via KVM

[Dotan Cohen]

On 7 March 2010 23:19, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 05:43, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> xorg.conf will be used if there is appropriate information there.  If KVM
>> means Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch, then you will probably need an
>> xorg.conf anyway as the cheaper ones don’t pass the appropriate
>> information through for the detection of the monitor.
>
> For what it's worth, I absolutely hated it when Xorg removed the
> static Xorg.conf requirement in favor of probing for this very reason.
>  And it's not just low-end KVMs that have problems passing information
> through.  I've had the same issues before on systems connected to very
> high-end enterprise level KVMs as well.
>

I must say that adding a skeleton xorg.conf file does not help. Unless
I'm doing something wrong, is there an example file that I could peak
at?

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