[clue-tech] video issues I'd like help with at this months installfest

[dennisjperkins at comcast.net]

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
> 
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 17:15 -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> >> Kevin Kempter wrote:
> >>> 2) I can't seem to figure out how to do a dual monitor setup
> >> Have you ever done that before?
> >
> > In F10, some drivers are auto detected by the xorg core now.  They  
> > don't
> > even have an xorg.conf.
> 
> That's got to be the most significant Linux news I've heard in  
> years... and no fanfare anywhere about it in the general "community".   
> (Of course, I guess ten years ago you'd hear about something like that  
> on Slashdot, but they're too busy catering to "techno-politics" topics  
> now.)
> 
> But definitely... "video that just works" would be nice, someday in  
> Linux.   :-)
> 
> The above sure looks like quite a step closer to that.
> 
> --
> Nate Duehr
> nate at natetech.com
> 
> 
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X.org has added D-bus and HAL as options when compilling X11.  You still need to have the correct video driver for your card, but D-bus and HAL let X find the appropriate hardware settings in many cases.  There might be some cases where something doesn't work, but I just learned about this during Xmas shutdown.  You can still provide an xorg.conf, in which case, I think X replaces probed settings with the ones in the conf file.

Xorg.conf is certainly much smaller this way.