[Novalug] Great time

[greg pryzby]

if there is an xorg.conf, it will be used. otherwise, the system is
configured on the fly...



On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:51 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <
JECottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I have an acer X221W 22" widescreen 1680x1050 monitor. when i run centos
> 5.3, i get only about 90% of the width covered with the blue login
> background of gdm, unless i hit CTRL-ALT-+, which gives me the whole
> screen. unfortunately, using system-config-display doesn't really help
> either, giving me progressively weirder effects, making me wish i had
> squirreled away the original xorg.conf.
>
> and fedora and/or ubuntu don't even seem to have an xorg.conf. i'd like
> to see an option to disable the stupid mouse area on a laptop when you
> have a real mouse connected. I always bounce my thumbs on those.
>
> jim
>
> John Franklin wrote:
> >
> > On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Barnett Hsu wrote:
> >>
> >> The hardest part was getting the video to be set at a higher
> >> resolution than 800x600.  Kudos to Mr. Franklin for determining
> >> that adding the horizontal sync and vertical refresh lines
> >> into the xorg.conf was what was necessary to get the display
> >> at 1280x1024.
> >
> >
> > My pleasure.  xorg.conf and his father, XFree86Config, are old
> > adversaries of mine.  I hate to see others suffer low screen resolution
> > by them. :)
> >
> > jf
> >
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