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billbar

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Registered: 2004-02-14

Posts: 100

Where will I find xorg.conf

I swear I have been all over the directories.
'whereis' says /usr/lib/xorg & usr/include/xorg.  Not there.
Saw a reference in the forum to etc/X11/xorg.  Not there.
Running the Arch 2008.1 with KDE4.

Seems that the only way to manage screen resolution is with the config file.

Thanks,
Bill

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Where will I find xorg.conf

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg to create it. Then it will be in /etc/X11.

Rokixz

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From: Šiauliai, Lithuania

Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 251

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Re: Where will I find xorg.conf

it can be in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XF86Config

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robertp

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From: Warszawa, Poland

Registered: 2007-09-11

Posts: 123

Re: Where will I find xorg.conf

Well, you may not have xorg.conf at all since new versions of X doesn't need this file to run. But it still may be used to tune some parameters.
When you run X without config it will autodetect things like driver, resolution.

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: Where will I find xorg.conf

You can generate an initial configuration file with xorgcfg.

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richs-lxh

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Registered: 2008-08-23

Posts: 76

Re: Where will I find xorg.conf

If I could just post a tip for new users who maybe reading this thread. Using "locate" from the terminal will provide a very fast search for any file.

You just need to first update the databse which lists all your directories and files:

As root:

su

+ your root password

updatedb

locate name-of-file

As a sudo user

sudo updatedb

sudo locate name-of-file

ie xorg.conf:

[richs-lxh@arch ~]$ su
Password: 
[root@arch richs-lxh]# locate xorg.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
/usr/share/hwd/xorg.conf.ati.tpl
/usr/share/hwd/xorg.conf.tpl
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
[root@arch richs-lxh]#

richs-lxh

Last edited by richs-lxh (2008-08-26 22:42:35)

aveightor

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Registered: 2005-04-24

Posts: 33

Re: Where will I find xorg.conf

you could install hwd pacman -S hwd then as root hwd -xa answer the questions it might say enabling vesa driver so you may need to edit your xorg.conf afterwards but hwd will write a xorg.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Last edited by aveightor (2008-08-27 01:23:37)