On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:25:18AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 09:17 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: > > I think the Fedora release notes mention that if you run the tool > > system-config-display, it will automatically generate an xorg.conf for > > you. > > > > >From the Common F11 Bugs, under "Miscellaneous problems with Intel > > graphics adapters ": > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs#intel-misc-gfx > > > > "/etc/X11/xorg.conf. If that file does not exist, you can run > > system-config-display as root to create it." > > I'm glad to see people referring to the common bugs page - yay :) > > However, I have to admit that's one of my more hand-wavey moments (I > wrote that bit) - I was in a hurry and didn't check whether a) > system-config-display is actually installed by default (it may not be, > and thanks to NetworkManager, if you can't get into X, you may well not > have a network connection in order to install it...) and b) whether it > runs in console mode. > > I should probably investigate and come up with a more comprehensive, > hand-holdy note. My recollection is that s-c-d is not installed by default, but it does have --set and --noui switches that allow you to turn off any attempts to use a GUI mode while setting parameters. > I believe running Xorg -configure as root from *outside* of X will > create a /root/xorg.conf.new file which you can move > to /etc/X11/xorg.conf , as an alternative method. Just so! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
