Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : where is xorg.conf ?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Friday 22 September 2006 02:35, Philip Webb wrote:
> I've updated to modular X
[...]
> and everything seems to be working as before, but where is  xorg.conf ?
>
>   root: X11> pwd
>     /etc/X11
>   root: X11> ls -l
>     total 8
>     drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   72 Sep 20 15:56 Sessions
>     -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1496 Sep 20 15:56 chooser.sh
>     -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  922 Sep 20 15:56 startDM.sh
>     drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   72 Sep 20 15:56 xinit
>
> The guide seems to believe it should be in this dir
> & I can't find it in  /usr/lib/X11  /usr/lib/xorg  /usr/share/X11 .
> I can't even see an  xorg.conf.example  anywhere.
> Before updating, I moved  /etc/X11 -> /etc/X11-mono , which is still there.

You are saying that X is working, right? In that case the log file will show 
you can see where it finds the config file:

# grep "Using config" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

My bet is on /root/xorg.conf ...

> Is  xorg.conf  no longer essential ?

Yes.

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Bo Andresen