Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

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

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 10:27, John N. Alegre wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks for the continued help.
>
> So if I make the changes directly in /etc/X11/XF86Config I should be ok,
> correct?

Correct. Of course save the original file in case the changes don't work. In 
runlevel 5 the xserver restarts when you go to the login screen so you don't 
need to reboot to try the changes. You can also restart the xserver from the 
login screen using the menu. If for some reason it doesn't work and you can't 
get back to the command line, you can reboot using "runlevel 3" as a boot 
option and replace the config file from the command line.

Jeff