Getting X configured correctly used to be a real chore. You had
to know all the hardware specifications for your monitor and
video card, which isn't always easy to gather. Nowadays, though,
your distribution's installation program is generally able to
autodetect the hardware and find the right settings.
Nonetheless, you still might need to go into the configuration
file to tweak a setting or two. Or you might simply be curious
about how the file is set up. You'll find the configuration file
in /etc/X11, called xorg.conf for the X.Org server and
XF86Config or XF86Config-4 for the XFree86 server. Click here to
see what the xorg.conf file for my system looks like. We don't
have space to discuss the details of the file here. What's
interesting to note is the way each piece of hardware is defined
separately and then in terms of their relationships to each
other. The configuration file is divided into sections. For
example, the Module section specifies the modules to be loaded
when the X Window System starts up. Th