ot, configuring x

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

I have notice that the auto config on modern distros doesn't always get
it right.  You will end up with a system that works, but it will get the
keyboard and video wrong.  Ubuntu usually thinks I have a pc 105
keyboard when I actually have a pc 104 keyboard.  This config will work,
but I won't have the right alt key or the context key.
Also, Ubuntu chooses the visa driver instead of the nv driver.  The visa driver will work, but the X system will have better performance if I switch to the 
correct driver.

          Kenny

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:45:54PM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> It seems that x-windows has advanced quite a lot recently,
> I never have to do any pre-configuration anymore. Even on
> a fresh OS install, all I ever do is startx, and the x-windows
> system figures out its settings automatically. This may not
> be true in all cases, but it always works me this way, unlike
> in the past when you had to configure x before running it.
> 
> Regarding permissions, I never do anything special with
> x-windows, the x server should work for any user logged
> into the system, and it writes files such as .Xauthority
> into the user's home directory automatically.
> 
> Doug
> 
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