[CentOS] centos x11

[Craig White]

On Jul 13, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote:
> 
>> Based on my experience on RHEL Beta1, "Xorg --configure" will create
>> xorg.conf which you can then tweak and use. On older Intel graphics chip
>> I had to use "nomodeset" kernel option to have normal picture.
>> 
>> New Xorg tries to read EDID information from monitor but monitor makers
>> EDID code is not always compatible with what Xorg expects. That is why
>> you get only minimal resolution and need xorg.conf file.
> 
> I've had to fight this lack of xorg.conf in other distributions --
> that and the nouveau video driver and grub2 -- and was kind of
> dreading the day it would come to CentOS. At least we didn't get Gnome
> 3. Not quite sure why these kinds of changes are being made, but there
> are a lot of things I don't understand -- and I'm sure there are good
> reasons for all of it. I'll just adjust and find ways to work around
> it.
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the reason that you don't want an xorg.conf file is that multiple users can have different display settings instead of being locked in by an overall configuration file.

Craig