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

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

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 unable to locate this table. Where is
> it to be found?

/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.

I have the following in my xorg.conf:
################################################
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Option          "UseBIOS"       "off"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
#######################################################
It disables using the built-in parameter table in
by Acer P235H. It might be useful as an example.

HTH

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net