On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 04:32:14AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Marc Haber composed on 2015-09-29 09:10 (UTC+0200): > > I would like my X to generate a configuration file to write some > > additional options in the correct stanzas. I am not planning to > > actually use the full xorg.conf. > > > Anyway, X -configure doesn't work on my system and results in "No > > devices to configure. Configuration failed." > ... > > What am I doing wrong? > > X -configure is a virtually useless anachronism.
If it doesn't work any more, it shouldn't be documented any more. There are gazillions of more-or-less skilled HOWTO "docs" on the net that refer to that command. If it should not be used any more > Build an xorg.conf that only has in it whatever sections need to be > there to provide the options you need, and let automagic do the rest. That would be much more easy if one had something non-empty to start with. Of course I would have stripped down the file to the bare minimum necessary, but writing that from scratch is just unneccessarily hard for someone who is not used to writing manual X configuration. I do fully understand that people will use the entire output of X -configure as their X server configuration, inadvertently turning off all the magic they might need and causing more support burden that way, but that can be prevented by, for example, making the generated file subtly syntactically incorrect or by requiring the user to remove a certain generated line before the X server will eat the file. Not having X -configure any more, however, will make writing manual X configuration to alchemy science as it was fifteen years ago. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
