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

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sat Aug 15 14:26:09 UTC 2009


On 9 Aug 2009, James Laver outgrape:

> On 9 Aug 2009, at 19:25, Caroline Ford wrote:
>
>> New X doesn't really use xorg.config any more. It's all automagical -
>> which is great when it works!
>
> ITYM 'would be great if it worked'.
>
> I'm quite saddened by the move to configless X, not only does it  
> usually get it wrong, but the solution has switched to 'run these  
> commands that interact with the X server' rather than 'tweak the  
> config a little bit'.

Um, you *can* still use xorg.conf. It's just not mandatory anymore.

> And the latter requires effort to make it happen every time you start X.

i.e. edit one startup file.
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