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On 08/26/12 07:31 PM, Jan Owoc wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Jerry Kemp <[email protected]> wrote: >> The Xorg man page suggest I need a "xorg.conf" file in /etc or one of >> several other locations. > > Yes, there are specific locations from where Xorg will read the file. > > >> The Nvidia X Server GUI appears to create one for me, using the "Save to >> X Configuration File" button under X Server Display Configuration. >> Unfortunately, generating this file then saving it as xorg.conf doesn't >> appear to be enough. > > This file that was generated... did you put it in /etc (or one of the > named directories), or did it end up in your home folder (not one of > the locations Xorg looks)? based on the Xorg man page, I have done /etc/ and /etc/X11/ . The /usr/etc/ directory did not exist. > > >> Is there some special trick to get this working correctly? This seems >> like it ought to be a pretty simple thing, at least it was with Xsun. > > This misplacing of xorg.conf was the mistake I made and fixing it > solved my problem. You may have other issues, but let's tackle the > obvious one first. > So where specifically do you have yours placed? > > The next step would be that Xorg probably reads the various xorg.confs > in a specific order, so the default one may be read before yours. Are > you able to look at X's log file to determine which one is actually > being used when X starts? Running "find" from / indicates that there are no other xorg.conf files on my system, other that the one I have created. Thank you for your reply. > > > Jan > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
