Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

[Mike Edenfield]

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 19:02 +0000, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 30 December 2010 17:40:18 Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +0000, Mick wrote:
> > > Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and
> > > locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  I have
> > > found all these back and forth changes to fdi's, xorg.conf.d and what
> > > have you, unnecessary and annoyingly time wastin
> > >
> > > Of course I might have missed something simple in all this kerfuffle, so
> > > please chime in if there is a better way around this.
> >
> > If all you are worried about is making your touchpad work in X, and
> > you're willing to pull it up in a text editor every time you need to
> > make a change, then no, you didn't really miss anything.
>
> Well, it's the touch pad and keyboard on two laptops, both of which seem to
> not have liked evdev defaults, or modifying xorg.conf, or adding options to
> the evdev file itself, or adding options to the 50-synaptics.conf file, or a
> 10-keyboard.conf file that I created.
>
> On the other hand, with a desktop the transition to 1.9 two months or so ago
> just worked™.
>
> > The purpose of xorg.conf.d is to allow packages/utilities/etc to drop in
> > changes to your X config seamlessly, as in, without the user being
> > required to take any specific action.  For example, the synaptics input
> > driver drops a 50-synaptics.conf file into your xorg.conf.d that
> > includes a simple "this is a touchpad" configuration, which would take
> > effect just by restarting X.
>
> Are you talking about the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory or the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ which I created on my own?  I was hoping that any
> additions in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ would take precedence over settings in
> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and survive an update, but the two seem to clash
> and cause erratic behaviour.

If you have a file of the same name in both directories, then the one
in /etc should override the one in /usr/share.  But the names need to
match exactly.