Configuring xorg.conf

galliar · 09-20-2007, 07:13 AM

Hello,

I have Fiesty loaded on a 160GB usb drive. The goal is to boot it at work and at home. Both systems have difference graphics cards. On Freebsd and Slackware I could just run through xorgconfig and set my card to vesa, and it should work on most systems.

However, all I can find is "sudo dpkg–reconfigure xserver-xorg". This assumes I know all the options perfectly, which I don't.

Is there a more automated way to let X do the probing and set up the xorg.conf file for you at the command line?

Regards,

Randy.

HappyTux · 09-20-2007, 09:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by galliar

Hello,

I have Fiesty loaded on a 160GB usb drive. The goal is to boot it at work and at home. Both systems have difference graphics cards. On Freebsd and Slackware I could just run through xorgconfig and set my card to vesa, and it should work on most systems.

However, all I can find is "sudo dpkg–reconfigure xserver-xorg". This assumes I know all the options perfectly, which I don't.

Is there a more automated way to let X do the probing and set up the xorg.conf file for you at the command line?

Regards,

Randy.

You could always edit the file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) directly to set the driver used to vesa or if you can get the new Xorg installed then with it supposedly you don't even need an xorg.conf for most setups... Another option is having two separate config files then copying whichever one is needed at the time to the real file and restarting the X server.

otoomet · 09-20-2007, 01:01 PM

I would write a tiny script, run during boot, which checks which computer you have (e.g. by hostname) and makes a symbolic link to the correct xorg.conf.

Best,
Ott