About xorg.conf

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 20 21:18:22 PST 2013


On 2013-02-20 11:06 (GMT-0500) Felix Miata composed:

> Using the following 3 files in xorg.conf.d/ should be all you need:

> # 50-screen.conf
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "Default Screen"
>     Device "Default Device"
>     Monitor "Default Monitor"
> EndSection

> # 50-monitor.conf
> Section "Monitor"
>       Identifier	"Default Monitor"
> #    Option	"PreferredMode"	"1600x900"
> EndSection

> # 50-device.conf
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier "Default Device"
>     Driver "NameOfMyCustomCompiledPandaboardDriver"
> EndSection

> Optionally, combine the three files into one xorg.conf file instead.

> Automagic should take care of everything else.

I failed to pay attention to your mention of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. 
Making changes there are subject to being overwritten by package management 
system updates. These modified files need to be placed in 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ or combined into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
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