I am using slackware current, and am extremely frustrated by the loss of control I've suffered because of this "feature" in the latest Xorg package.

I have an nvidia card, I use twinview, and I have a wacom tablet, not exactly a typical setup.. At one point I had everything working perfectly. Now I can't get the tablet to work properly due to xorg overriding my settings, despite the fact that they are all explicitly defined in xorg.conf

I have lost control of xorg, I can't diagnose the problem with my configuration and I am frustrated out of my mind, especially since I spent so many hours learning how to do these things in the first place.

which brings me to my question, does anyone know how to disable this? and can I do it without recompiling X?

what would happen if I were to run a dual headed setup? one instance of xorg would steal the others mouse and keyboard.

Wait, what auto-configuring? I'm familiar with the fact that it sets itself up, the first time, but that was it, on both my systems. After the initial setup I just altered what I wanted and it stayed. Perhaps you've got a broken "feature."

Other than recompiling x so it works like it's supposed to. Why not just stick a config file under an alternate name like wacom.conf and just start x manually with your config file?

Did this happen when you upgraded -current to x11-6.9.0 added back in May? Perhaps that's when your file got overwritten. Did you backup your previous files, and check the new incoming config files on your system with the ".new" extension? But you say "despite the fact that they are all explicitly defined in xorg.conf." It also gets overwritten if you install Nvidia drivers and let the nvidia-config whatever monster run at the end. But that does save a backup file.

Caeda,

Don't want to hijack DaWallace's thread, but I'd like to learn HOW-TO "recompile X so it works like it's supposed to." If you don't mind, you can email me off the forum.