[Hardy] How to make persistent changes to xorg.conf (after reboot) in Hardy?

hardy is unsupported as of recall try searching fact

But being new to ubuntu, I am not sure you really want to do that. Hardy may be instable for you, and once installed, you are stuck with it. 2 days ago, an upgrade was pushed to the repos, and made the pc unbootable of those who installed the package (nothing irreversible). Just to tell you that it might not be painless.

R.JOEL-STAFFORD: Come again? Are you sure that your response was meant to be a reply to my question, or perhaps someone else's? I have been using Ubuntu since 2005 and am now testing Hardy in order to prepare for a corporate rollout after the final release.

I am not sure: 1) whether it makes any sense, or is even possible, to be investigating /usr/share/xresprobe/xorg.conf since xresprobe is being phased out and dexconf/debconf seems to be the way of the future, 2) EXA seems to also be the way of the future for Intel cards (upstream won't support XAA), but XAA works best right now because of the slow scrolling issue (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/175774/comments/5).

sorry im a noob thats all i can offer

have you tried to add beryl otr other suppositories?

peace =]

@toobuntu : That's weird : I thought X generated automatically the MISSING information of the xorg.conf file... not overwriting it with its own decision.

@R.JOEL-STAFFORD : Are you serious ? you're saying some non-sense, and I feel that you are the one needing an extra "suppository" here :-) I guess you wanted to say "repository"...

@Olivier: I thought so, too. But my experience in Hardy is otherwise (see quoted text below).

Separately, sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg is non-interactive for me in Hardy, i.e. I cannot select a particular resolution, driver, refresh rate, etc. It simply informs me that it overwrote xorg.conf and saved the old one as a backup. (Oh, and lest you ask the obvious...yes, my question about persistent changes to xorg.conf presupposes that one does _not_ screw things up by running sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.)

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/AutodetectMonitorFrequency

from which I quote:

"Migration

For Gutsy, we did not forcibly regenerate xorg.conf in order to preserve user customizations. For Hardy, though, since we're eliminating so much of the xorg.conf's contents, we'll need to make a more strident effort to either regenerate or replace the xorg.conf's.

One approach would be to include regexp's in xserver-xorg.postinst.in to detect replaceable sections of xorg.conf. This is probably the safer solution.

Another approach would be to just regenerate the xorg.conf entirely. We should do this only as a last resort."

Just to be clear, you've tried adding that info directly into the xorg.conf and then rebooting?

yes

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

does this help or am i still thinking i need an enima??

peace =]

sorry i dont know more after 3 weeks in ubuntu

as youve stated youre proficiency is maxing 4 years

i know that i would try to help any one as you can guess by looking up my questions and answers info

peace=]

thanks for the encouragement i am also in hardy beta now