xf86config
 

i cant seem to find the xf86config file. ive looked in places it should be [i.e. /etc/x11] but no luck :( any ideas? do i have to make one?

try /usr/X11R6/etc ?

d you even have one tho? (and yes you need to make one i think)

will configure and make that file for you, or your the vendors (of your video's card) version for it, i have a ATI card and theres a different program i have to use, pretty much the same thing tho, just a few extra options for my card

It's according to what distro you use. Some don't provide xf86config.

What distro do you use?
Are you trying as root?
What is the ouput of locate xf86config?

some distros don't provide it?!!?, but its a standard program for almost all X distributions (at least the popular ones, (xfree86, xorg, etc)

tho i cant say i blame them, some of the programs provided by xfree86 and the like are bad (twm, xterm, umm, thats all i can think of :) )

For one, I know it is not in Red Hat 9. I don't know about Fedora but I doubt it. Red Hat only provides their own program.
redhat-config-xfree86
or
system-config-xfree86

hmm, owell, next thing you know they will replace X with there own version (they already have there own linux kernel don't they?)

i cant say its a bad thing they provide a different program, but must they leave out valuable (well, more standard) programs that are supposed to be installed? (to make it easyer on everyone not using it?)