On Tuesday 29 April 2008 06:40:17 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I had a power blackout this afternoon (in fact it affected most of > the country -- I live in Venezuela) and after coming back up my X > configuration was damaged. Basically the screen resolution was all > wrong and the Display widget (under Gnome this time) refused to > change it to something reasonable. > > This is F9-pre, and there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. > > I switched to a console, did "init 3" and ran > system-config-display. This worked perfectly and created the > xorg.conf file. > > What I'd like to know for future reference is where does an > xorg.conf-less X server gets its configuration from? Is it stored > in a file somewhere, did that file get damaged by the power blip > and thus have strange settings in it (which X simply accepted > without complaint). If it's not stored but regenerated from > hardwired settings, why was it all wrong where previously it had > been right? > > I'm happy it all worked out, but I'd like to know what happened. > > poc Since you're on F9-pre, you might be interested in a current discussion on the devel list to remove xorg.conf completely. Note well that the devel list is "NOT A SUPPORT LIST"! Here's a link: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-April/msg02327.html The discussion doesn't answer your question completely, but it might be illuminating. Recommended support resources are given at: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -dwight- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
