Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual page 503

Table 26.1 Sections in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Type
Files
ServerFlags
Module
InputDevice
Monitor
Modes
Device
Meaning
The paths used for fonts and the RGB color table.
General switches for the server behavior.
A list of modules the server should load.
Input devices, like keyboards and special input devices (touch-
pads, joysticks, etc.), are configured in this section. Important
parameters in this section are Driver and the options defining
the Protocol and Device. You normally have one
InputDevice section per device attached to the computer.
The monitor used. Important elements of this section are the
Identifier, which is referred to later in the Screen defini-
tion, the refresh rate VertRefresh, and the synchronization
frequency limits (HorizSync and VertRefresh). Settings
are given in MHz, kHz, and Hz. Normally, the server refuses
any modeline that does not correspond with the specification of
the monitor. This prevents too high frequencies from being sent
to the monitor by accident.
The modeline parameters for the specific screen resolutions.
These parameters can be calculated by SaX2 on the basis of the
values given by the user and normally do not need to be changed.
Intervene manually at this point if, for example, you want to
connect a fixed frequency monitor. Find details of the meaning
of individual number values in the HOWTO files in /usr/
share/doc/howto/en/html/
XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO (available in the
howtoenh package).
A specific graphics card. It is referenced by its descriptive name.
The X Window System 485