Please help: I've lost /etc/XF86Config

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Sun Apr 3 20:34:20 UTC 2005


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Victor Marquez wrote:
| Hello all,
|
| I made an "everything" install of FC3 as guest of VMware and it went
| well, then installed VMware Tools and when X started in next boot the
| screen was scrambled (funny colors and patterns).
|
| I remotedly logged as root and changed init default to 3 and rebooted.
| Somehow I managed to lose XF86Config and it's backups *sigh*
|
| Can somebody please send me a sample XF86Config?
|
| I know some settings are specific to my machine but it will make a
| good start point.


How about /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?  With the change to x.org from XFree86,
now Fedora creates /etc/X11/xorg.conf in place of /etc/X11/XF86Config.

Try running system-config-display, this should regenerate
/etc/X11/xorg.conf and away you go.

- -Andy
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