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What option do I pass startx to get it to read a different XF86Config file than the one in /etc/X11? Or can you even do that? or is it as easy as sticking something in .xinit?
Or, better yet, the problem as a whole. I've got 2 XF86Configs I want to be able to juggle around easily without having to constantly swap out /etc/X11/XF86Config, one for single head (with dri support), and one for dual head support.
# X -xf86config /etc/passwd
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(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.1.log", Time: Fri Nov 29 16:08:10 2002
(++) Using config file: "/etc/passwd"
Parse error on line 1 of section (null) in file /etc/passwd
"root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash" is not a valid keyword in this section.
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
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But to use that with startx it will be need to test, because startx is a script that calls xinit, and there are some options that must run in a right order...
vladkrak's example was what I was looking for, I don't like to touch root a lot to swap up XF86Config files, so I just abused vladkrak's example into a script so startx for 1 user is single head, and for my normal user is dual head.
Offhand since I've got 3 respondents, I'm bored and poor and looking at a lot of vacation time here over the next month. I did this so I could get DRI to work and hence, better gaming, and of course downloaded and installed Unreal Tournament 2003, patched it twice, and found that it of course won't bloody run under anything but a Nvidia card with the binary drivers.
Quake III seemed like a good second stop, but as far as I can tell I can't get a single player version and I want to try and get back into practice with fragging before I go and embarrass myself online again.
Anyone got some good suggestions in the games department for someone with a Matrox card that only spits out about 60fps in glxgears?
Originally posted by acid_kewpie hey fin, never heard of a manpage?
I did, I was just looking in the wrong place, didn't even occur to me to check X itself, just startx and xinit... I'm a gimp man, give me a break, heck I even avoid graphics card questions in Hardware. I'm afraid of X, its big and evil and... stuff.
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