I ran into a similar problem when using a diskless laptop - the display was not working in graphical mode...and I had not system-config-display (using CentOS 6.3)...
Anyway, you can definitely do "X --config" to configure the xorg.conf file.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Toralf Lund wrote:
Ned Slider wrote:
On 22/01/13 14:32, Toralf Lund wrote:
How exactly are you supposed to configure the display (i.e. set up X11) on a CentOS 6 system? I mean, in the past, there was system-config-display, but that's not supported any more. There is gnome-display-properties/System->Preferences->Display, but that seems to rely completely on auto-detection of the graphics card and monitors. What if this fails? Surely there should be a way to specify everything by hand?
Yes, Xorg will still use /etc/X11/xorg.conf if present so you can craft a config file by hand.
*sigh* still miss Xfree86 and the xconfigurator, that was *NOT* desktop-dependant, and let you configure graphically and tune it.
Exactly. The tool mentioned above was actually post XFree86, though...
Right. I hate having to edit xorg.conf by hand - it's a real pain, init 3, edit, startx, wait for it to crap out, or <ctrl><alt><bkspc>....
Anyhow, I guess I suspected that the program was removed completely with no real replacement. Bad decision, if you ask me, but I suppose Red Hat is to blame, and not the CentOS people. It's nice to know that you can still
Oh, of course it was RH's. I think they've gone to "but it'll work out of the box, like WinDoze!!!" (not that they're alone in that).
<snip> > It seems like the system-config-display still can be built and used on > the latest versions, though. I actually found a binary version via a > little search. It actually turned out that I didn't need it to get my > display up and running, as the problem was actually a missing driver > package, but I still think it's nice to have.
Really! Do you have a link to src?
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