Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandroselli@???):

> 1) they did not work (a lot of the times);

That was not true in my long and varied experience.
(I have run installfests for eight or nine Linux and BSD
user groups in the San Francisco Bay Area from the middle 1990s to the
present day.)

> 2) Xorg self-configuration works (most of the times).

This cannot be true, as this is before Xorg existed.