Package: xserver-xorg Version: 7.4 Severity: wishlist Hi,
Subject says it all, really. I'm sure the userfriendly police believes that getting rid of configuration and letting the computer guess everything is the right thing to do, but it is not. Case in point: Xorg 7.4 autodetects my display card just fine, however whenever I run xrandr --output VGA --auto --above LVDS it will tell me that the virtual size is not large enough. I know what the problem is, and how to fix it: just edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, find where it says Section "Display" and add a SubSection of the correct name where you say "Virtual 3000 2000" or some such -- it just needs to be large enough, really. However, with Xorg 7.4, there is no xorg.conf, so I have to either read the manpages for whatever makes xorg decide where to fetch its configuration at this point in time (not really an improvement to the previous situation, really) or I have to write an xorg.conf _from scratch_ without any help from the xserver-xorg package (*definitely* not an improvement). The file /usr/share/xserver-xorg/examples/xorg.conf is no help, since it does not match my hardware, and therefore I have to guess what the right driver is. I tried running 'X -configure', but the file it generates is not what it uses when I run X without xorg.conf (for starters, the keyboard layout says 'us', while it *should* say 'be'). I've now been trying to come up with a working xorg.conf for the past few hours, and haven't made much progress. Please do not tell your power users to go fuck themselves because you think that making life easier for users who're afraid of config files (and therefore couldn't care less about whether configuration is in an XML file, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or somplace else) is a good thing. kthxbye. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org