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Why is my xorg.conf vanilla after installing intrepid?

Asked by Jem

I have just installed Intrepid on my laptop. I have an acer AL23416W monitor and an Intel GMA 950 graphics driver.

My resolution is stuck on 1024x768@60. My xorg.conf has no device specific information in it at all. When I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg there is no change to the configuration file.

Is this to be expected? Or should I have the correct details in the xorg conf file after reconfiguration?

Here's the contents of the config file:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

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Best Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#1

This is expected. Intrepid is using the latest X.org7.4 / X server 1.5
Many things are being handled internally now and are automatically configured.
Even if you specify a setting in xorg.conf it might not be respected.

This quote is from my xorg.conf file
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.

From Ubuntu Intrepid Page is another quote
¨X.Org 7.4, the latest stable version of X.Org, is available in Intrepid. This release brings much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, and mice. At the same time this will allow the great majority of users to run without a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.¨

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Jem (jem-mawson) said : 		#2

Thank you

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Jem (jem-mawson) said : 		#3

Thanks Wyatt Smith, that solved my question.

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Frank McCormick (fmccormick) said : 		#4

Maybe his comments solved your problem but if you want to get out of 1024x768@60 you'll have to start fiddling with the xorg.conf file whatever anyone says.
When I installed Intrepid RC the first bootup put my system into 800x600 using the wrong driver, the i810. A day of fiddling and the installation of the intel driver had me where I belonged @ 1650x1080@60. If you're unhappy with the max resolution you'll have to start looking to make changes.

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fabfab (dohmes) said : 		#5

I think that's exactly where I am at. Everything works fine, installed from scratch right from the CD, no tweaking. BUT, 1024x768 only, and I think no 3D acceleration. It's hard to say on my 5 year old Thinkpad R40 with ATI Mobility Radeon M7 LW [7500].

Can you help:
1. How do I determine which driver is being used, given my vanilla xorg.conf?
2. As Wyatt quoted above, the comments in the xorg.conf suggest that even if I make changes there, these will be ignored. So how do I override the "automatically configured by server" piece?