[Gllug] Monitor detection and screen modes in Debian Lenny

[James Hawtin]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:40:05AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Mon 30 Mar, David L Neil Mailing list a/c wrote:
> > 
> > YMMV strikes again!
> > 
> > I should add that when I suffered this problem, Chris very kindly 
> > rendered hours of assistance; but when time kept passing and sleep 
> > intruded, I reneged and went for another distro...
> > 
> > 
> > - Tethys wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM, - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I have no idea what the "correct" way to do it is these days, but I've
> > >> always found "vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf" to work.
> > 
> > The real issue was with the 'automation'. Debian didn't seem to care if 
> > we edited the .conf or used a GUI/tool to do the same, if we set the 
> > resolution and put on a smiley face, it would throw our work away 
> > because at re-boot it knew better... (Ubuntu was the same)
> > 
> 

copy the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.<hostname>

hostname specific xorg files outrank the generic one.

James
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