[aklug] Re: Maintain your own xorg.conf?

I failed to mention XFree86.conf or the new modern XOrg.conf are shell
scripts and not just config files. THey ask you 5 questions and you have to
enter some values in and they save it in the XOrg.conf file in /etc/X11. I
think more modern distros might store a master xorg.conf in someplace dumb
like /usr/share/X11/Xorg.conf that might overide /etc/x11.org ... or is it
the other way around? Do a man XOrg.conf to find out what it is?
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Tim Gibney <timgibney76@gmail.com> wrote:

> Reminds me of Linux in the good old days of 2000. Typing Xfree86.conf and
> manually entering the frequences both horizontal and vertically. You need to
> get this from the manual of your monitor.
>
> I assume 10 years later that you need to type XOrg.conf (?) to set it. No
> one uses XFree86 anymore if it exists at all to run X. The XOrg.conf should
> be in /etc/X11 in most if not all distros. I did this with SuSE, Redhat, and
> Gentoo.
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> * Christopher Howard <cmhoward@frigidcode.com> [101104 16:55]:
>>
>> > Is it possible to maintain your own xorg.conf file these days? Do
>> > any of you guys actually do that manually? (And actually know what
>> > you're doing...?) Reason I ask is because I am trying to learn how
>> > to do it on my own (for my certification test) but I'm not even
>> > getting out of the gate.
>>
>> > If I have no xorg.conf file, then X autoconfigures itself with no
>> > issues. But if I run Xorg -configure (to try to get a workable
>> > xorg.conf to start with) X just crashes (segfault) before starting
>> > up and doesn't even give me the xorg.conf file. The
>> > xorg.conf.example doesn't seem anything like my system.
>>
>> > Also, is there a tool you can use to get information about you
>> > monitor and its available resolution rates, etc.? The book I am
>> > reading mentions xdpyinfo and xwininfo, but these apparently only
>> > work /after/ X11 has already started, and it does not seem very
>> > handy to only know about tools that can only be used if X is
>> > /already/ configured correctly. It seems like if Xorg can
>> > automagically figure the hardware out, there should be some way
>> > for me to see the details from the command-line.
>>
>> Chris, for starters - what OS are you using?
>>
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>> Tim
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