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Bug#529651: Should have means of generating xorg.conf file for those who dislike automatic stuff



Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 7.4
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Subject says it all, really.

I'm sure the userfriendly police believes that getting rid of
configuration and letting the computer guess everything is the right
thing to do, but it is not.

Case in point: Xorg 7.4 autodetects my display card just fine, however
whenever I run

xrandr --output VGA --auto --above LVDS

it will tell me that the virtual size is not large enough. I know what
the problem is, and how to fix it: just edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, find
where it says 

Section "Display"

and add a SubSection of the correct name where you say "Virtual 3000 2000"
or some such -- it just needs to be large enough, really.

However, with Xorg 7.4, there is no xorg.conf, so I have to either read
the manpages for whatever makes xorg decide where to fetch its
configuration at this point in time (not really an improvement to the
previous situation, really) or I have to write an xorg.conf _from
scratch_ without any help from the xserver-xorg package (*definitely*
not an improvement).

The file /usr/share/xserver-xorg/examples/xorg.conf is no help, since it
does not match my hardware, and therefore I have to guess what the right
driver is.

I tried running 'X -configure', but the file it generates is not what it
uses when I run X without xorg.conf (for starters, the keyboard layout
says 'us', while it *should* say 'be').

I've now been trying to come up with a working xorg.conf for the past
few hours, and haven't made much progress.

Please do not tell your power users to go fuck themselves because you
think that making life easier for users who're afraid of config files
(and therefore couldn't care less about whether configuration is in an
XML file, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or somplace else) is a good thing.

kthxbye.



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