How to enable xorg.conf in F-11

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Jun 11 19:02:51 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 14:34 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> > I should probably investigate and come up with a more comprehensive,
> > hand-holdy note.
> 
> My recollection is that s-c-d is not installed by default, but it does
> have --set and --noui switches that allow you to turn off any attempts
> to use a GUI mode while setting parameters.

Indeed, I just confirmed that it's not installed by default (and noticed
the --set and --noui parameters independently :>)

> > I believe running Xorg -configure as root from *outside* of X will
> > create a /root/xorg.conf.new file which you can move
> > to /etc/X11/xorg.conf , as an alternative method.
> 
> Just so!

So you guys shamed me into doing it properly:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf

let me know if you see any problems there. Or just fix them, it's a
wiki. :) I'll be linking to it from anywhere which suggests creating an
xorg.conf file.

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