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. ---- 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