[CentOS] How to configure display on CentOS 6?

Ned Slider ned at unixmail.co.uk
Tue Jan 22 15:44:39 UTC 2013


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.

> Help, anyone?
>
>
> - Toralf
>



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