Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:58:27 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> Huh? You can't just specify a resolution in xorg.conf anymore? > > Nope. man xorg.conf says otherwise. > After proudly ignoring EDID for 20 years, linux switched 20 years ago there was no EDID --- if there was, monitors that supported it were not widely used. And it's supported since a long time now. > gears completely. Now it basically pays no attention to anything > you have to say in xorg.conf (though you can occasionally > put little fragments of things it is willing to look at in > the xorg.conf.d directory for maybe doing things like tweaking > options in the video driver). The man page says otherwise. Without an xorg.conf, my keyboard won't work right, neither would my old trackball. I don't know if you can still do mode lines as you had to before there was EDID. It would be a pity if not. -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
