F17: what replaces xorg.conf??

[Reindl Harald]

Am 25.08.2012 18:59, schrieb Beartooth:
> 
> 	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

grub2 is configured with /etc/default/grub and files in /etc/grub.d/

to generate the ACTIVE config you need to tpye
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

dunno what developers thinking implement a make-config
command which spits only to screen as default.....
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these days there is no xorg.conf needed on 999 out of 1000 amchines
however, you do not need a whole one

see below, what is not defined will be configured automatically

[root at srv-rhsoft:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d]$ cat 01-nocaps.conf
Section "InputClass"
 Identifier  "Keyboard"
 Option      "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection
[root at srv-rhsoft:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d]$ cat 02-vnc.conf
Section "Module"
 Load        "vnc"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier  "Screen0"
 Option      "passwordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"
EndSection
[root at srv-rhsoft:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d]$ cat 03-intel.conf
Section "Device"
 Identifier  "Videocard0"
 Option      "AccelMethod"   "sna"
EndSection

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