Re: xorg.conf

[James Harrison <jamesaharrisonuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was only getting 800x600 on my screen and I needed to make it 1280x1024.

I had to use system-config-display. Xorg -configure did not work. I got an error message. The low resolution was probably because I am using a KVM.

Thanks,

James Harrison

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From: Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:06:41 PM
Subject: Re: xorg.conf

Hi Caroll and welcome

If your monitor and keyboard setup are recognized by X, thorough the new nefarious ways, then you do not need to have an xorg.conf. If you need something non-basic, then you may choose to download and run  system-config-display (A gui version will appear in Gnome) or you may choose to create your own xorg.conf.

I for one had to create one for my system.

Regards

Leslie 

--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xorg.conf
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 12:32 PM

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:01:12 -0600
Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx>
 wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 16:49:18 +0000,
>   James Harrison <jamesaharrisonuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello, 
> > I am new to the list (I joined today).
> > 
> > Can someone tell me why Fedora 10 does not create
> > an /etc/X11/xorg.conf as standard?
> 
> Because in theory it doesn't need to.
> 


>From wikiquote (including footnote), the famous philosopher Yogi Berra
is supposed to have said:

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In
practice there is.
* This has also been attributed to computer scientist Jan L. A. van de
  Snepscheut and scientist Albert Einstein."

-- cmg (who
 once saw Yogi hit a home run on a pitch that was actually
in the strike zone)

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