Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Jeffrey Laramie <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:28, John N. Alegre wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 February 2005 09:17, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
> > Yeah this is kind of a confusing mess. xorg uses the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > file, but in SuSE 9.2 this is just a link to /etc/X11/XF86Config. If you
> > run the ATI fglrxconfig utility it will save it's configuration
> > to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by default (even though ATI presumably knows
> > that 9.2 doesn't use that file). If you use the fglrxconfig utility I
> > recommend you override the default setting and save to
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config which is where SuSE expects to find it.
>
> I am using 9.1 Pro.
>
> There is no /tc/X11/xorg.conf file.
>
> I made the changes directly with vim to /etc/X11/XF86Config.  Is there
> anything else I have to do?

For some reason I thought you were using 9.2 so I've given you a bunch of info 
that's irrelevant. Sorry. Yes, in 9.1 XF86Config is the correct file. If 
you've saved your changes just restart the X server as I described from the 
login screen or using startx if you're already at the command line.

Jeff