[Gllug] Reasonable graphics card for light 3D / compiz in Ubuntu Jaunty

[Victor Churchill]

2009/8/10 Christopher Mocock <chris at wavestore.com>:
> James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>> There is a command that gets X to dump the current auto-detected
>> config to a xorg.conf type file. One can then use that as a start for
>> the xorg.conf file in /etc and the next time X loads, it will read it.
>> So, the auto method can be used in most cases, but the few it does not
>> work, one can use a manual xorg.conf file instead. I would say that
>> one has the best of both worlds now.
>
> Agreed. The command in question is:
>
>    X -configure
>
> The generated config file is /etc/X11/xorg.conf (on Fedora at least). I
> find that X gets it right automatically about 80% of the time, and I use
> a variety of hardware in the office here. Most of the problems occur
> when using older distros with newer hardware.
> Of course esoteric setups may require manual tweaking, in which case the
> "X -configure" route is the way to go.

Thank you both for the info. I had been thinking of just taking the
Wubi xorg.conf from the working install and dropping it into the
less-working one, but getting a generated initial config from the
receiving system will be useful for comparison.
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