On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 16:16 +0000, g wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > g wrote: > > have a look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, 'section monitor'. > > > > this may be what you are asking about. > > poc, > > my apologies, it was late, early morning, when i saw your post and > some how (tired and worn out playing with f8 install) i missed reading; > > > 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. > > where did system-config-display put 'xorg.conf'? i would guess it would have > gone under /etc/X11. being f9-pre, this is a guess, but logical that it would > not be changed. It created the file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > of times that i have lost a file from power loss or lockup and hard reset, was > because it was open. i would not think that x11 would hold a config file open > when it only needs to read it. then again. > > had you made any changes to your x11 setup you should have at least had .old > file. I didn't have a previous xorg.conf file. That's the whole issue: X worked perfectly well without it, until the power fail, then it didn't work (until I ran system-config-display and created an xorg.conf file). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
