[Tfug] Xorg 1.5

[erich]

OK,
      Can you tell me what version of Xorg that you are running?

                                                                                        
Erich

Jim March wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM, erich<erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
>   
>> OK,
>>      I've been reading the upgrade guide on this version. It says
>> that a xorg.conf file is no longer necessary. This is troubling
>> to me. In light of this, how do you tell the software to change
>> the scan rate? The fastest scan rate produces font size on many
>> applications that I have to squint to read.
>>
>>     I'm happy with:
>>
>>            HorizSync    31.0 - 110.0
>>            VertRefresh  55.0 - 160.0
>>
>>                                                    Erich
>>     
>
> Two options:
>
> 1) There's a standard for monitors to report back to the video card
> what they can cope with.  Assuming both monitor and video card are new
> enough to support that standard, it's handled automatically.
>
> 2) For when it's not, or for when there are multiple possible options
> (esp. CRTs instead of LCDs), each distro is supposed to supply a
> utility for manually setting this stuff.  The same utility also
> switches dual-head on and off, or lets you clone two monitors (useful
> when doing projector displays to an audience) and screen rotation.
>
> In Ubuntu Jaunty (and Gnome) this is in System>Preferences>Display
>
> Some of the proprietary video drivers are using (optionally?) their
> own control panel widget.  I'm running an Intel video card so I don't
> know a lot about that.
>
> Upshot: everything you used to need xorg.conf for is being GUI-ized.
> And, at least with my hardware, it's working well.  I have a laptop
> with an Intel 965 video chipset running drivers off the xorg-edgers
> repo, internal screen is 1280x800, I often drive an external screen at
> 1280x1024 dual-head (running a browser on the laptop screen, watch
> movies on the external screen).
>
> It all works great - works even with Compiz on, although I usually
> chop that for performance reasons.
>
> Jim
>
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