Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?
On 20110123_115724, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:40:18 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>
> > From: Chris Jones
> >> I ran the above test and after grepping out the /sys & /proc's, I came
> >> up with just one file... Xorg.0.log..!
> >>
> >> So it looks like this setting is remembered somewhere outside the file
> >> system.
>
> That was the conclusion I reached.
>
> And I find it very dangerous, if something got messed up you'll need many
> doses of patience and more than a basic knowdledge of your system to
> restore the correct resolution.
>
> > At least in my experience, xrandr modes are *not* remembered. I have to
> > rerun it everytime X is started or configure Xorg.conf. Curious that in
> > your system the settings persist.
>
> Yes, they do... and so I asked :-)
>
> I also thought the resolution would be forgotten when restarting the
> system but that did not happened.
>
> To discard a problem within the VM environment, I run the same xrandr
> commands on a openSUSE box I keep installed over "real irons" (external
> USB device) and I got the same result: xrandr settings are automatically
> remembered after reboot.
>
> I can do more testing but if someone can confirm the problem (do not try
> on production machines), I can open a bug report on this.
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
I have no special knowledge. Just a suggestion on reading this thread.
Outside the file system, but still on disk, is the swap space.
I have always supposed that swap space was always wiped clean and
fully re-initialized on boot, but I don't know. Short of that, I suppose
something can be written into the boot rom. But that seems harder to
do than something involving creative (crazy?) use of swap space.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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