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

[Loredana Loconte <loredana@cs.bu.edu>]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:

> 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.

I do remember old times. I greatly appreciate progress, sorry if this 
didn't transpire from my previous message.

I am only suggesting that one of the good features of these old times,
i.e., the fact that all information was available in text files, could
be maintained. It was, and still is a good learning tool, ignored when 
things work well, very useful when something goes wrong and needs fixing.

I must say that I miss the old X config file, now if I want to know what
is going on I have to interpret a much more confusing log file.

BTW, what can we do to configure xorg.conf? dpkg-reconfigure does not
seem to help. Is manually editing xorg.conf the only option left?

Thanks for your help,
Loredana