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#1 2007-11-25 21:45:42
- synthead
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Autogen'ning an xorg.conf file?
If you start X without a config, it configures itself automatically. Is there a way I can snag the settings it decided to use and make a config (that I can tweak a bit?)
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#2 2007-11-25 22:45:25
- hacosta
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Re: Autogen'ning an xorg.conf file?
X -configure
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#3 2007-11-26 04:52:36
- synthead
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Re: Autogen'ning an xorg.conf file?
I ran it and tried the config, but it was drastically different than what Xorg autoconfigures to. I was running at 640x480x16 in framebuffer where without a config I'm running a full 1680x1050 with the "nv" driver, I would assume.
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#4 2007-11-27 00:00:06
- vogt
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Re: Autogen'ning an xorg.conf file?
The two have to be the same: can you paste the relevant sections of the generated xorg.conf (Section "Device" and Section "Screen")
All you really need as far as device goes is:
Identifier "Name"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0" # most likely, but who knows
Also you might want to check in some logs /var/log/X.0.log or similar to see which drivers are being loaded in the noconfig state (then specify that driver).
And lastly, you gotta be sure that you are actually running with those respective xorg.confs.
Or, you could just change the wrong stuff wrongly detected without an /etc/X11/xorg.conf at runtime via xrandr, xset, or xsetkbmap (or as an argument to xinit or startx (check some manpages for that)
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