On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:09:44 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: [...] > 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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
