On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:20:29PM -0500, John D. Baker wrote:
> It has been my experience that X (whether native or modular) usually
> gets it wrong and that a config file is absolutely necessary.
In my experience most of the config is fine, you only need very tiny
/etc/xorg.conf to override the things it can not guess (like modes for
pre-edid monitors, keyboard details, ...)
Below is the full config I use on the machine where I'm currently
typing, just as an example.
Martin
--8<--
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "yes"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspenDtime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Protocol" "wskbd"
Option "Device" "/dev/wskbd"
Option "XkbModel" "type6_usb"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
