Re: xorg configuration

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Sun 28 Aug 2011 at 20:54:58 +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote:

> I have xorg on autodetect, but it frequently gets things wrong about the  
> resolution the monitor provides. When it gets things right is there any  
> way to extract the configuration of the running instane of xorg into a  
> configuration file?

You may want an /etc/X11/xorg.conf which is something like this:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "1905FP"
    Modeline "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync
    HorizSync     30-81
    VertRefresh   56-76
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Monitor       "1905FP"
    DefaultDepth   16
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth      16
        Modes     "1280x1024_60.00"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

The Modeline information could come from /var/log/Xorg.0.log I suppose,
but I used cvt to generate it.

   cvt 1280 1024