On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:09:44 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote:
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With the release of Xorg 1.5, the X server is capable of running
without
an xorg.conf file for many video cards, but not all. And as you
mentioned, many of the settings for devices have defaults that are not
appropriate for everyone.
Therefore, the xorg.conf file is used more for exceptions than the rule,
now days, but it is still very much in use.
So yes, for some combinations of video card, monitor, keyboard, and
mouse, the 1.5 Xorg server can work without an xorg.conf file. For
other combinations, the config file is still needed.
How about a KVM switch and more than one PC in the mix?
For several releases of Fedora (and an older, non-USB KVM
switch), every time I did an upgrade or install, I had to take the
machine getting it out from behind the KVM switch and connect all three
peripherals to it directly. If I wanted to stay online while doing one, I
had to bring in a laptop.
Then one time recently, I forgot -- and Lo! and Behold!, the
upgrades worked anyway.
Will they still, or do I have to go back to that tedious hardware
fiddling?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.