[GLLUG] Wanting to write my own xorg.conf

[Alec Warner]

Giovanni DiMatteo wrote:
> I'm a student at Albion College, Gentoo/OpenBSD/FreeBSD triple-boot user,
> and am REALLY frustrated with figuring out how to write my own xorg.conf
> for
> Gentoo... I noticed that the GLLUG had a meeting in September that
> discussed
> this very thing, and I missed out :/ .
> 
> Does anyone have notes or a power point from that meeting?   How about
> websites that help with this very thing, or example xorg.conf files for my
> kind of laptop (I am on a Thinkpad R51, 2883-8QU).  Of course, I have rtfm,
> and googled a lot, but it's not straightforward enough--I especially
> need to
> know how I can get the hardware information I need (horiz/vertical sync
> /refresh rates or w/e).
> 
> Thanks!
> 

If you are running Gentoo:

emerge Xorgautoconfig

then run:

Xorgautoconfig

It should generate an xorg.conf for you thats halfway decent.

-Alec Warner