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jethro

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From: Canton, MI USA

Registered: 2008-06-18

Posts: 19

[solved] where did xorg and xorg.conf go?

I've got Arch up with KDE3.5 and life is fairly good. I went to put myself through the hell of trying to get an external monitor up and running a shared desktop with the laptop panel and thought I'd have a look at xorg.conf to see what it had auto-setup for. Alas - no xorg.conf. pacman -Ss xorg returns no xorg, only xorg-somethingorother. pacman -Qs xorg shows the same. The command xorg -configure (or xorg anything for that matter) doesn't run. Was xorg done away with in this capacity? If I don't edit xorg.conf to get my displays working, what's the new deal?

I have the feeling this is an ultra-noob question - I apologize in advance. But I have not been able to find the answer in the places I've been searching.

Thanks,
--Jeff

Last edited by jethro (2008-06-20 18:57:21)

INCSlayer

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-09-06

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Re: [solved] where did xorg and xorg.conf go?

the command is Xorg -configure with a big X also since xorg is a group you wont see it persee when doing pacman -Ss you can see things that is in the group because they have a (xorg) at the end of the description example:

extra/xorg-xinit 1.0.7-3 (xorg)
    X.Org initialisation program

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jethro

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From: Canton, MI USA

Registered: 2008-06-18

Posts: 19

Re: [solved] where did xorg and xorg.conf go?

the command is Xorg -configure with a big X also since xorg is a group you wont see it persee when doing pacman -Ss you can see things that is in the group because they have a (xorg) at the end of the description example

What a tool (me). Thanks for the kick in the head. That was it.
--Jeff