Re: can not select video card and set resolution with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

["Frank Lin PIAT" <fpiat@klabs.be>]

Loredana Loconte wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
>
>> Nowadays, there is (almost) no need to specify the video driver and
>> resolution in /etc/X11/xorg.conf... thanks to xorg auto-configuration
>> and X-Window's randr.
>
> It helps to have an explicit configuration file, with all parameters, and
> a an easy to use configuration tool. It is possible to simplify users'
> life without hiding useful information. If the automatic tool does not
> recognize a card or if I want to do something different, why not?

Do you remember the time where you had to declare video timing for each
resolution manually? Do you remember the time where you had to modify
/etc/modules to declare each and every single required module?
Do you miss that?

Xorg detects reasonable defaults (or "it" should be fixed). Configuring
xorg.conf is only needed to manualy override those default values, IMHO.


Franklin