kde / gnome... boring

[Pau]

but Josh... my laptop works perfectly fine with fvwm+openbsd and
worked perfectly with obsd4.2+kde (though I think I had an xorg that
time) or under linux+gnome... this is not a hw limitation, this is
something specific to obsd 43 and gnome+kde

I am sending this to -newbies because I think it can be interesting
not only to me but to a number of people

2008/9/19, Josh Grosse <josh at jggimi.homeip.net>:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:36:03PM +0200, Pau wrote:
>  > Hi, Josh...
>  >
>  > thanks a lot for your answer... I actually fixed the problem but did
>  > not understand the why of the fix. Fredrik was right. The damned gnome
>  > thing expects an xorg.file placed in /usr/X11
>  >
>  > Why? No idea... But gnome is happy now
>  >
>  > Is this a bug?
>
>
> No, it's a hardware design limitation.  :)
>
>  As you know, Intel-based workstations/PCs are the world's most popular.
>  There are many different video card implementations, and many vendors who
>  produce products that,  while they do not follow standards exactly, work
>  with Microsoft Windows, which is all they care about.  So, even though they
>  are *supposed* to work generically, they may not.
>
>  The X.Org version of X11, that we use for our X Window System, may or may
>  not work with a default configuration, due to the many slight variations
>  from video standards that we see with i386 (and with amd64, which has the
>  same hardware interfaces for video).  We also see a vast number of monitors,
>  each with different physical characteristics that must be manually configured
>  sometimes, too.
>
>  Because of these many variations of video card and video monitor -- xometimes
>  X.Org's X windows system works without any xorg.conf file.  Sometimes, it
>  does not.  Sometimes it requires manual effort on the user's part
>  to modify the config, too.  FAQ 11 is all about X11 configuration, and the
>  large section of FAQ 11.3 is just for i386 and amd64 setup.
>
>  My LiveCDs all have an xorg.conf file in them, which is set to use 1024x768
>  resolution and 24-bit color.  However, in order for that to work, the video
>  card must be VESA compatible, and the monitor must be capable of 31.5-48.5
>  KHz horizontal sync, vertical sync of 50-70Hz, and a refresh rate of 60Hz.
>  And this is just a fallback configuration in case automatic configuration
>  fails. :)
>
>
>
>    -Josh-
>