On Nov 8, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
That being said, many newer monitors will feed that info back to X.org
via DPMS, and X.org will then use it to configure itself...usually
incorrectly. :) (that's not entirely fair...sometimes, X gets it
right.
In my experience, however, it is wrong more often than right, but
I use
weird stuff).
I actually just installed 4.0 on a compaq evo in my office, which has
some nvidia card in it.
I knew I had an nvidia card at home, so I ssh'ed into the box to take
peek a the xorg.conf,
since I knew I was running X at home and I figured the conf would be
similar. Funny thing is...
I couldn't find an xorg.conf file anywhere on the system!
When I got home... I looked... and low and behold... X was running
just fine, and there was
no xorg.conf to be found. I looked at the X log and found that X had
actually configured
itself! What really happened is that I formatted my drive instead of
upgrading and when I
copied my config files in I completely forgot about X. It just worked
somehow... and actually
chose what the dell flat panel "feels" is the optimal resolution (it
tells me so when I click the
menu button on the monitor).
Is that expected behavior? Of course not... and for the record, no it
doesn't work with the
same automagic goodness on the evo at work (I think it's the card in
the evo, the monitor
is exactly the same as the one I have at home) but if you haven't
tried to just run X without
any config file... give it a go! You might get a pleasant surprise!
Mike H
