selective manual xorg setting?

taewon · 2010-07-09 08:28:25

I'm currently configuring an Asus 1005pe. Currently, I don't have the xorg.conf file and the netbook is usable. I want to add the xorg settings found in the wiki page. However, I don't want to create a whole xorg.conf file, but want to add only some manual configurations, e.g. the graphics setting. Is it possible to do that, i.e. let HAL determine everything except, say, the graphics setting shown below

Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "exa" 
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "FramebufferCompression" "on"
Option "Tiling" "on"
Option "XvMC" "on"

bernarcher · 2010-07-09 08:42:26

As per Xorg 1.8 you can put extra configuration files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Be sure, however, to use unique file names so they won't get overwritten on Xorg updates.

taewon · 2010-07-09 10:16:49

Thank you for the fast reply. Just one more question: Do I just have to put a file there? Does it get automatically activated? So, I just create a text file with XXXXXXX.conf and put the code I quoted above with "Section "Device"" and "EndDevice"?

bernarcher · 2010-07-09 10:32:03

Xorg automatically first reads the files in xorg.conf.d and then the standard xorg.conf (so that local settings will override). Thus it suffices to put a suitable file into xorg.conf.d. A file with "Section device"..."End Device" should work.

Note however that there are some syntax changes. Best check the InputClasses in the Xorg wiki for this.

Last edited by bernarcher (2010-07-09 10:33:41)

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selective manual xorg setting?

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