X autodetection/configuration, was Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] squashfs -- anyone have a pristine tree?

[Jane Dogalt]

--- Jane Dogalt <jdogalt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Actually it's called "Xorg -configure".  That will generate an xorg.conf file

Actually this looks fairly interesting (because I went as far as googling, but
not quite as far as just reading knoppix scripts, which is obviously an
integral part of the final solution).  I was googling to see whatever happened
to the read-edid program I used, and while it appears to be less than fully
maintained and robust, this appears to be the successor-
 
http://www.nongnu.org/autocfg-xorg/

(note, despite the nongnu domain name, the tool in question advertises gpl-v2)

> that matches your vga (and sometimes monitor I think) hardware.  Then you do
> some sed or python or perl to tune things like the user preferred resolution.
> 
> I was using this feature immediately after it was released in XFree86 several
> years ago in a mandrake-8.0 livecd.  Though my appliance only required
> 640x480,
> so I didn't have to worry too much about how successfully the monitor probing
> (edid stuff) worked.
> 
> Then if you want to, you can do some more scripting to replace nv with nvidia
> etc (assuming you've agreed to all their terms, etc...)
> 
> -jdog
>  

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