F17: what replaces xorg.conf??

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Sat Aug 25 17:57:38 UTC 2012


On 08/25/2012 09:59 AM, Beartooth wrote:
> 	One of my F17 machines hardly ever manages to boot. It's an old
> Dell PowerEdge SC1420, and it did fine with all the previous Fedora
> releases, and fine until recently with F17. Now it hits the monitor's
> error message "input signal out of range."
>
> 	But sometimes, if I leave it long enough, it does get to the login
> screen, and after that works normally.
>
> 	Time was when I'd've tried editing some configuration file in /
> boot/grub or /etc/X11; but the only such I can find now start with "Do
> NOT EDIT" -- so I'm out of my depth.
>
>   --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Sometime Historian of Tongues
> Sclerotic Squirreler, Double Retiree, Linux Convert
> No one can ever have enough books, pockets, friends,
> knives, guns, garlic, or mountains.
>

It's still checking for /etc/X11/xorg.conf but if it's not there, Xorg 
uses autodetection.
If you want, you can create xorg.conf and use it just like you used to 
before




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