1. The "stub" or "blank" xorg.conf files are actually normal. Xorg has been working to make more and more of xorg.conf optional, and make the xserver automatically detect and configure most hardware. So it is no bug that the xorg.conf seems more empty than usual. There are some situations where additional things need to be added to xorg.conf, but that's fairly exceptional and probably not the case for this issue.
2. The Screens and Graphics (aka displayconfig-gtk) application is deprecated in Hardy. The reason why it shows blanks is the consequence of the "blank" xorg.conf. This is also part of the reason we're deprecating the tool in Hardy. 3. In Hardy, -ati has been blacklisted for Compiz and is no longer supported. This is because -ati still has too many bugs when running with 3D compositing. It's true that a few people did find that compiz worked ok for them with -ati, though, so it is possible to un-blacklist it on your local system. See bug #197135 for discussion. You can bypass the blacklist by starting compiz with SKIP_CHECKS=yes. 4. ~/.gnome2/monitors.xml - this is a file generated when you run the Screen Resolution tool, to override the xserver defaults. On a freshly installed or upgraded system, this file won't be present; it only appears after you've used Screen Resolution. Deleting it is safe, and just puts you back to the xserver defaults. 5. Touchpad doesn't work. This is probably unrelated, but hard to say with the limited info given. Please see bugs #89517, #226433, or #95418; if those don't match what you're seeing, file a new bug (see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting for details on what to include in bug reports.) 6. X crashes for borfast. What you're seeing is probably an unrelated bug, but you've not given enough info to troubleshoot - please see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting and file a new bug. Also, you should probably also collect a backtrace - see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Backtracing for directions. So, issues 1, 2, and 4 are not actually bugs, and 3 is certainly a dupe. 5 and 6 are unrelated issues that need reported separately, and just got linked here because of the red herring of xorg.conf being shorter than expected. Thus I think we can close this bug as invalid, to help avoid others getting confused. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- hardy xorg not detecting for compaq evo n410c https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
