Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110715_220310, William Lee Valentine wrote: If I want to employ higher screen resolutions with a monitor that Linux does not recognize, I understand that I must manually enter values in the table Xorg.conf. I have installed Debian 6 (Squeeze) on a machine that uses such a monitor, but am

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:03:10 -0700, William Lee Valentine wrote: If I want to employ higher screen resolutions with a monitor that Linux does not recognize, I understand that I must manually enter values in the table Xorg.conf. (...) Well, nowadays you can use xrandr tool to get that.

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes: /etc/X11/xorg.conf But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost everybody. They are unable to get your keyboard to work and will also fail with your pointing

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes: /etc/X11/xorg.conf But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost everybody. They are unable to get your keyboard to

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes: /etc/X11/xorg.conf But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost everybody.

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-16 16:56 +0200, lee wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes: /etc/X11/xorg.conf But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer versions of X are capable of auto

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110716_155607, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes: /etc/X11/xorg.conf But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-16 17:57 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote: I think the only part of it that I actually still need is the line: Option UseBIOS off but I never had enough hand-holding from an expert to properly get rid of the cruft. This option appears to be specific to the

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110716_174350, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-16 16:56 +0200, lee wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes: /etc/X11/xorg.conf But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-07-16 16:56 +0200, lee wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes: /etc/X11/xorg.conf But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-16 20:31 +0200, lee wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: Ah, now I think I see what you mean. I didn't express myself very well. My intention was to make a general statement that input devices are very likely not to work correctly without an xorg.conf. This is a rather

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2011-07-16 20:31 +0200, lee wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: Ah, now I think I see what you mean. I didn't express myself very well. My intention was to make a general statement that input devices are very likely not to work correctly

Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-15 Thread William Lee Valentine
If I want to employ higher screen resolutions with a monitor that Linux does not recognize, I understand that I must manually enter values in the table Xorg.conf. I have installed Debian 6 (Squeeze) on a machine that uses such a monitor, but am unable to locate this table. Where is it to be