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chutsu

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 11

Where is my xorg.conf?

Hi
Just installed xorg, gdm, and gnome using pacman.
But when I was trying to edit the xorg.conf file it isn't there. Now I am currently running gnome2 and am able to use it fine,
but I mean no xorg.conf? how can that be?
Thanks
Chris

biagio

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From: Florence - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 49

Re: Where is my xorg.conf?

one of the possible methods is:

$ sudo pacman -Sy hwd
$ sudo hwd -x
follow the instructions of the output to rename the file created
edit xorg.conf

evr

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Where is my xorg.conf?

you technically don't even need an xorg.conf anymore, so if everythings working, you could just leave yourself without one, unelss you're trying to configure something in particular.

Cdh

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 1,098

Re: Where is my xorg.conf?

X should be able to probe all the necessary values itself now, so a xorg.conf is not needed if everything goes well.

To create a xorg.conf, use

X -configure

to create a xorg.conf.new and move it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Last edited by Cdh (2009-02-03 16:10:55)

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chutsu

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 11

Re: Where is my xorg.conf?

well my goal was to install ati driver, so thats why I needed the xorg.conf.
Why does Arch not have one and it works?

skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Where is my xorg.conf?

well my goal was to install ati driver, so thats why I needed the xorg.conf.
Why does Arch not have one and it works?

No, Arch does not come with a default xorg.conf. But, as mentioned above, there's a few different tools that you can use to generate one.