Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

["B. Stia" <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 08:34 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
> B. Stia wrote:
> > Hello SuSE people.
> >
> > Asked this question a little over a month ago and got no response.
> > I just need to know the answer to this.
> >
> > Running 9.2 with all updates. Please confirm or reject my
> > assumptions.
> >
> > 9.2 uses xorg. correct?  Anything written about X should be written
> > to xorg.conf correct?
> >
> > Here is my point. When I installed 9.2 all of the parameters of my
> > monitor were written to xorg.conf.  I changed out the monitor to a
> > new tft/lcd monitor.  Sax wrote the parameters of the new monitor
> > to XF86Config. (The old monitor is still present in xorg.conf)
> >
> > Now, everything seems to be working correctly but has left me
> > somewhat confused and bewildered.  Is my system using xorg, like it
> > should be in 9.2 or has it changed up and is now using XF86Config.
> > Or, is it using some combination of the two. Why did Yast do this?
> >
> > I'll probably buy 10.0 when it is released so it is probably a moot
> > point. Still would like to understand this though.
> >
> > Bob S.
>
> I've seen previously, not in 9.3, though I may have changed it,
> xorg.conf as a symlink to XF86Config. You can do "ls -l /etc/X11" to
> see what's there.

OK, did that and it shows the xorg.conf file (but not the XFree86.config 
file) There is no soft link there unless it is a system generated hard 
link which I cannot see.

> /var/log/Xorg.0.log will give you a blow by blow 
> account of what X uses.
> # grep xorg.conf /var/log/Xorg.0.log

OK did that and I got the same response as below. 

> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

Sooo, that means it is using the xorg file but why doesn't the new 
monitor show in the file and the old one is still present in that file. 
I do see some references to the new monitor under the nvidia settings 
though in Xorg.0 log.

Oh well   !!!! ????

Bob S.