On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 02:30:00PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > My guess is that the udev developers thought 'It'd be excellent to > automatically supply to the starting Xorg binary the output of "Xorg > -configure" when /etc/X11/Xorg.conf doesn't exist, thereby making Xorg > automagically able to reconfigure itself every time it starts without > ever bothering to create Xorg.conf' -- and somehow made the library > call to libudev perform that shim operation. All I really know is that > I was suddenly being told that creating Xorg.conf was no longer > necessary if you were adequately happy with the autoconfiguration > occuring in its absence.
Manually creating the configuration -- or even manually triggering its creation -- is a pretty bad idea. It just guarantees you won't have working X when you make any change to your hardware -- and sometimes software as well. If you have a need to adjust the configuration, you put into Xorg.conf just the settings you want to alter. This will let X do the right thing. Save for good-for-nothing Nvidia proprietary drivers, I haven't seen a case where mucking with this file was needed to get working X for over a decade. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Vat kind uf sufficiently advanced technology iz dis!? ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- Genghis Ht'rok'din ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
