My (unpleasant) fedora 10 installation experience

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 19:04 +0000, Cry wrote:
>> Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot <at> laposte.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>> xorg in Fedora now runs in no-configuration-file mode which means the
>>> layout preferences have to be read somewhere else.
>> Which brings in my Fedora 10 install experience.  If you have no xorg.conf You
>> CAN NOT DUAL HEAD!!!!!  You need to set Virtual big enough.  xrandr is useless
>> if there isn't a big enough virtual to support the monitor.  The default with no
>> xorg.conf should be the largest virtual possible.
> 
> No, it shouldn't be, because that burns memory on integrated graphics
> machines like Intel, and because it destroys your ability to do 3d on
> older cards, and and and.

That's some great information. Granted creating the xorg.conf for my 
dual head setup wasn't a pain personally, I wondered why they chose such 
a fb size. I asked on the radeonhd ml with no response. This totally 
answers that question.


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