Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:58:27 +0200 lee wrote:
Huh? You can't just specify a resolution in xorg.conf anymore?
Nope.
man xorg.conf says otherwise.
After proudly ignoring EDID for 20 years, linux switched
20 years ago there was no EDID --- if there was, monitors that supported it were not widely used. And it's supported since a long time now.
gears completely. Now it basically pays no attention to anything you have to say in xorg.conf (though you can occasionally put little fragments of things it is willing to look at in the xorg.conf.d directory for maybe doing things like tweaking options in the video driver).
The man page says otherwise. Without an xorg.conf, my keyboard won't work right, neither would my old trackball. I don't know if you can still do mode lines as you had to before there was EDID. It would be a pity if not.