Thanks for the reply, oldcpu, sorry I was not more clear.
Basically, I’m trying to create an xorg.conf file with the proper settings for my video system that will take precedence over it’s inability to determine my monitor type when the KVM switch is in the system. I had this working until yesterday! And I stupidly forgot to back up the xorg.conf file I had when I re-installed. It’s been a few months, but I think I made that original xorg.conf using the nvidia-xconfig approach which doesn’t work now.
I went to the link you recommended, and as it turns out I had seen it before but missed the “third” way to make an xorg.conf file, namely the Xorg -configure instruction. I just tried that and it did make the xorg.conf file . . . but when I looked into the file it was very weird, starting out with thinking I had a dual-head system . . . which I don’t. It also didn’t work through the KVM switch, or if it was working it still cut my resolution way down. Strangely, when I plug the monitor directly into the computer and change nothing else, a reboot comes up with max resolution . . . like the xorg.conf file is being ignored, the monitor is being recognized and the system is acting accordingly.
Why can’t I make that xorg.conf file with actual data from my system? When I use the “hardware” facility in YAST everything is found easily enough.
Bill