Craig White wrote: > > 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. So, you aren't nfs mounting home directories? You can have individual ones on your own workstation. mark