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DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

where does catalyst control center (amdcccle) store settings?

where does catalyst control center (amdcccle) store its settings when run as user?
someone in the ubuntuforums said that they're stored under /etc/ati/amdpcsdb even when run as user. but that cannot be!
there are no similar files under ~. any clues?

vlad

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: where does catalyst control center (amdcccle) store settings?

Yes, it is true that they are stored in /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.

[...] AMDCCCLE doesn't store any changed settings from AMDCCCLE in the xorg.conf or an INI file in the home directory, but in an intermittent location. AMD's driver and the aticonfig and amdcccle utilities use the AMDPCSDB. The AMDPCSDB is the AMD Persistent Configuration Store Database and is a live database that is comparable to the registry within Microsoft Windows. The file where the AMDPCSDB data is written to is /etc/ati/amdpcsdb and is done when the X server shuts down. AMD engineers prefer keeping the display-related settings in the AMDPCSDB so that any xorg.conf changes are minimal. [...]

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-01-07 17:54:49)

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: where does catalyst control center (amdcccle) store settings?

that's really true! unbelievable! even as user...
i ran amdcccle now and the time stamps of  /etc/ati/amdpcsdb changed.
isn't this very vulnerable? as user change smth system-wide?