"I opened up a terminal window, su'd to root, changed to the
/etc/X11 directory, and issued the ls command. What I saw gave me
pause. There was no xorg.conf file. I had a machine up and running,
in full 5 runlevel, with no X configuration file. How is that so?
Well, it turns out that is where Xorg is heading (as of release
7.4). And I'm not sure I like it.
"Don't get me wrong, I understand the "why." For large-scale
adoption, Linux needs to be as simple to use as the competition.
One way to make this so is to take the guess work out of setting up
such things as video. And I think it's safe to say we all know that
configuring video has, in the past, been a nightmare on certain
chipsets. And to that end I can fully understand why the developers
would want to go this route. And if they can create a fool-proof
system that will be able to successfully configure X Windows with
zero user intervention, more power to them. But I think this is a
sign of things to come, and that sign looks like a Merge with Linux
and Windows."
