Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Apart from auto-detecting your video card, we'd also have to auto-detect your monitor and the modes its capabale of. I'm not sure if that's possible, and if it is, obviously, I don't know how to do it.
Well, of course it's possible...how do you think `xorg -configure' works? :) No, I don't know how to actually do it myself, though it probably involves loads of low-level BIOS (both mobo and video card) probing. For monitor probing, googling on 'DDC' and 'EDID' might be useful. In short, I think it'll be way too complex for the liveCD. I'd suggest either forcing someone to run through the prompt-based Xorg configuration routine prior to being able to start X for the first time, or look into how Knoppix and the like do it, there may be some convenient wrappers/libraries for this kind of stuff already.
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