Bug#647442: marked as done (Create informational xorg.conf by default)
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Package: xorg
Version: all
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
In the new versions of xorg, an xorg.conf is not always created, depending on what video driver you're using. It would be nice if an informational xorg.conf was created explaining the following:
xorg can use files ending in the suffix .conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d for additional configuration. It is preferred to use an <empty xorg.conf> and create files (e.g. 20-nvidia.conf, 20-radeon.conf, 20-wacom.conf) there in order to configure a single device. You might have to create the directory yourself (mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d). See also "man 5 xorg.conf".
That way, when you have folks that are expecting their x config to be in xorg.conf, they will have something pointing them to the new structure of the xorg.conf.d directory structure.
Thanks for your time.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-21
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.6+4
ii xkb-data 2.1-2
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.1.901-2
ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.6+9
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev [xorg-driver-in 1:2.6.0-2+b2
ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics [xorg-drive 1.4.1-1+b1
ii xserver-xorg-input-wacom [xorg-driver-in 0.10.10+20110203-1+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.6+9
ii xserver-xorg-video-apm [xorg-driver-vide 1:1.2.3-2+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-ark [xorg-driver-vide 1:0.7.3-2+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-ati [xorg-driver-vide 1:6.14.2-2
ii xserver-xorg-video-chips [xorg-driver-vi 1:1.2.4-1+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-cirrus [xorg-driver-v 1:1.3.2-4+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev [xorg-driver-vi 1:0.4.2-4+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-i128 [xorg-driver-vid 1:1.3.4-2+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel [xorg-driver-vi 2:2.16.0-1
ii xserver-xorg-video-mach64 [xorg-driver-v 6.9.0-1+b1
ii xserver-xorg-video-mga [xorg-driver-vide 1:1.4.13.dfsg-3+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-neomagic [xorg-driver 1:1.2.5-2+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau [xorg-driver- 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-openchrome [xorg-driv 1:0.2.904+svn920-1+b1
ii xserver-xorg-video-r128 [xorg-driver-vid 6.8.1-5+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon [xorg-driver-v 1:6.14.2-2
ii xserver-xorg-video-rendition [xorg-drive 1:4.2.4-2+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-s3 [xorg-driver-video 1:0.6.3-4+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-s3virge [xorg-driver- 1:1.10.4-4+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-savage [xorg-driver-v 1:2.3.2-3+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion [xorg-d 1:1.7.5-1+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-sis [xorg-driver-vide 1:0.10.3-3+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-sisusb [xorg-driver-v 1:0.9.4-2+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-tdfx [xorg-driver-vid 1:1.4.3-4+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-trident [xorg-driver- 1:1.3.4-2+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-tseng [xorg-driver-vi 1:1.2.4-2+b2
ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa [xorg-driver-vid 1:2.3.0-7+b1
ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware [xorg-driver-v 1:11.0.3-3
ii xserver-xorg-video-voodoo [xorg-driver-v 1:1.2.4-2+b2
Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends:
ii libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-6
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--- Begin Message ---
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 15:13:21 -0400, Mark R. White wrote:
> Package: xorg
> Version: all
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> In the new versions of xorg, an xorg.conf is not always created, depending on what video driver you're using. It would be nice if an informational xorg.conf was created explaining the following:
>
> xorg can use files ending in the suffix .conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d for additional configuration. It is preferred to use an <empty xorg.conf> and create files (e.g. 20-nvidia.conf, 20-radeon.conf, 20-wacom.conf) there in order to configure a single device. You might have to create the directory yourself (mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d). See also "man 5 xorg.conf".
>
> That way, when you have folks that are expecting their x config to be in xorg.conf, they will have something pointing them to the new structure of the xorg.conf.d directory structure.
>
The xorg.conf manpage should cover this. I disagree that we should
create an xorg.conf by default.
Cheers,
Julien
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