[Gllug] Monitor detection and screen modes in Debian Lenny

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 06 Apr, James Hawtin wrote:
> 
> 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

   Thank you, I will try it.

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