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Old 03-17-2010, 03:59 AM   #1
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xorgconfig: command not found

Ok I'm trying to reconfigure xwindows because it looks like it's using default generic vga drivers and personally my gui looks like shit and when I open firefox to browse the web everything looks like shit, but when I run xorgconfig I get the following

xorgconfig: command not found

I searched google and couldn't find any helpful information.

I tried running xorgsetup but that's about worthless as can get it only setups the keyboard and asks you what color bit you want to use. any help would be very much appreciated.
 
Old 03-17-2010, 04:01 AM   #2
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Seems some of the xorg packages are not installed in your system.
 
Old 03-17-2010, 04:02 AM   #3
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xorgconfig and xorgcfg are not well maintained, and have been removed from the X.Org 1.6 release.
Code:
Xorg -configure
should work
Last edited by troop; 03-17-2010 at 04:07 AM.
 
Old 03-17-2010, 04:09 AM   #4
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You can try this as well:
Quote:
system-config-display --reconfigure
 
Old 03-17-2010, 04:09 AM   #5
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Quote:
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Code:
Xorg -configure
should work
Xorg -configure does nothing but asks me where I want to mount my mouse and that's it.

Edit

Correction.
Xorg -configure just spits out a list of video card makees then tells me where my mouse is connected then creates a xorg.config.new file in /root and it never goes into any options where I can configure anything.
Last edited by Sargalus; 03-17-2010 at 04:17 AM.
 
Old 03-17-2010, 04:17 AM   #6
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Is the problem about the Xorg or the GUI theme?

Last year when I first installed Slackware 13, start KDE and open firefox, it looks so ugly. All GTK-based apps looks ugly also. According a thread here, all it need was a GTK-theme manager. I used gtk-chtheme.

I don't know if that is your case.
 
Old 03-17-2010, 04:21 AM   #7
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Is the problem about the Xorg or the GUI theme?

Last year when I first installed Slackware 13, start KDE and open firefox, it looks so ugly. All GTK-based apps looks ugly also. According a thread here, all it need was a GTK-theme manager. I used gtk-chtheme.

I don't know if that is your case.
Nah, it's the display settings it's using generic drivers for video, if I could get a screen shot made I would post one to give a better example. looks like it's only using 256k color bit. so im trying to reconfigure X so I can tell it to use the correct settings and what not.
 
Old 03-17-2010, 04:23 AM   #8
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@Sargalus, you tried that command from my last post?
 
Old 03-17-2010, 04:30 AM   #9
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@Sargalus, you tried that command from my last post?
Yes, the command doesn't excist

root@requiem:~# system-config-display --reconfigure
bash: system-config-display: command not found
root@requiem:~#
 
Old 03-17-2010, 05:39 AM   #10
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system-config-display is not used under Slackware, so that's pretty bad advise for this section of the forum :-)

Anyway, did you try renaming the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf? What driver does the newly created xorg.conf file say to use for your video card? What video card do you even have?

If you want to customize the settings in the xorg.conf file that was generated by 'Xorg -configure' you'll have to edit it.

Adam
 
Old 03-17-2010, 10:58 AM   #11
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Slackbook say to use xorgsetup. It will create the X11/xorg.conf you need file when you are done setting up you keyboard and stuff. . This works for me, xorgconfig does not.
Last edited by slkrover; 03-17-2010 at 11:02 AM.
 
Old 03-17-2010, 01:13 PM   #12
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system-config-display is not used under Slackware, so that's pretty bad advise for this section of the forum :-)

Anyway, did you try renaming the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf? What driver does the newly created xorg.conf file say to use for your video card? What video card do you even have?

If you want to customize the settings in the xorg.conf file that was generated by 'Xorg -configure' you'll have to edit it.

Adam
the xorg.config.new file that Xorg -configure made is trash it doesn't run when you test it out, it starts x just fine but you get no display or anything just a nice black screen.

my video card is a geforce galaxy 9600
 
Old 03-17-2010, 01:18 PM   #13
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Slackbook say to use xorgsetup. It will create the X11/xorg.conf you need file when you are done setting up you keyboard and stuff. . This works for me, xorgconfig does not.
I used xorgsetup and it just sets up your keyboard which is pretty lame and when you look at the xorg.config it made it doesn't have anything in there for resolution sizes or anything for graphic setttings that I can see below I posted my xorg.config that xorgsetup created

Code:
root@requiem:~# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "dri2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option       "XkbModel"  "pc101"
	Option       "XkbLayout"  "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"             	# [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"         	# <i>
        #Option     "FPScale"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"            	# <i>
        #Option     "DualHead"           	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "nv"
	VendorName  "Unknown Vendor"
	BoardName   "Unknown Board"
	BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

root@requiem:~#
 
Old 03-17-2010, 01:53 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Sargalus View Post
my video card is a geforce
Then it's no wonder that the X configuration tools didn't work.

Install the NVidia drivers, use nvidia-xconfig to generate your xorg.conf, and run nvidia-settings once you're in X.
 
Old 03-17-2010, 01:54 PM   #15
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Running just X (ie. not running xinit or startx) will only produce a black screen. As for these utilities and config files not having options to set resolutions... Most decent drivers will query the monitor these days for supports resolutions (and even the preferred resolution). 'nv' is not a decent driver. And given the newness of your video card, the support for it in 'nv' is probably quite limited. Install the nvidia drivers and be happy.

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