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Re: xorg.conf less ?



On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:09:18PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
> >SAMUEL JOSE PEREIRA CARNEIRO MACDOWELL wrote:
> >>I'm squeeze on HP Pavillon tx1420us and Linux hp 2.6.26-2-amd64
> >> and gnome is OK nevertheless . . .
> >>
> >>hp:/etc/X11# ls -l
> >>
> >>total 41
> >
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >This one
> >
> >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 Out 12 17:58 xorg.conf
> >
> 
> Except it's empty!
> 
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf is the correct file.

the newer xserver packages are using hal to automagically configure X.
look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and you will see the devices being added and
configured


> 
> Try running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and after you answer the
> setup questions you shoukd habve the one dpgk configures, xorg.conf,
> which should 'not' be of 0 size, and the old xorg.conf renamed to
> xorg.conf.backup.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 

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