Customzing xorg config in Fedora 10
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 27 20:53:34 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 13:49 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm running Fedora 10 on a HP Compaq nx7400 laptop (fresh install, was
> using Fedora 9 before), which also has an external 20" LCD attached to
> it.
>
> In Fedora 9, I added a "Virtual 3360 1050" line to the Screen section in
> xorg.conf in order to run my desktop on both displays. In Fedora 10, a
> xorg.conf file is no longer created, so I'm not clear on how to
> duplicate my old dual display config.
>
> I've found a few "How To" pages for creating a very limited xorg.conf to
> do what I want, but each time I create the file and then restart xorg,
> the laptop locks up. To fix, I have to ssh to it, reboot, remove the
> xorg.conf, and then continue the boot process.
>
> What should the xorg.conf file look like so that I may add my custom
> "Virtual" line? I don't want to add anything more than the bare minimum
> necessary for this to work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ranbir
Runing: Xorg --configure
will get you awn xorg.conf file.
>
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