[ale] dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Wed May 7 11:07:12 EDT 2008


Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> No,  we are working on doc at 1024x768 and a larger screen area would
> benefit us.  In Xubuntu all we could choose was 1024x768.  We removed a
> tube and replaced with LCD.  I downloaded the config from my system to
> this one since they are almost identical.  I then looked up the LCD spec
> and hand edited the xorg.conf.  Nothing new for me.  I did this back in
> 1995.  It was the only way then.  Question is why did they remove the
> CLI version and is there a replacement?

There's a trend in Xorg development towards autodetection instead of 
configuration. I would try a bare-bones xorg.conf and see if it worked. 
If it didn't I'd look in Xorg.0.log to identify the problem and add the 
minimum amount of configuration needed to fix it.

-Brian


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