From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PYOYE-0004lH-Tb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:52:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3B33E06F5; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:50:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (187.250.102.97.cfl.res.rr.com [97.102.250.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C90E06F5 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:50:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA167D801E for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:50:48 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jtEZ4fGoxZrc for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:50:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.69.51] (platypus.kutulu.org [192.168.69.51]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 385D27D801B for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:50:48 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server From: Mike Edenfield To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <201012301902.24918.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201012291301.35032.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1293730818.28544.10.camel@platypus> <201012301902.24918.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" Organization: KutuluWare Software Services Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:43:06 -0500 Message-ID: <1293738186.28544.12.camel@platypus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 62cee999-cc84-49a1-948b-ccfd29809115 X-Archives-Hash: 005a7ff9ed7413ee6292d106154b4822 On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 19:02 +0000, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2010 17:40:18 Mike Edenfield wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:01 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and > > > locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I= have > > > found all these back and forth changes to fdi's, xorg.conf.d and wh= at > > > have you, unnecessary and annoyingly time wastin > > >=20 > > > Of course I might have missed something simple in all this kerfuffl= e, so > > > please chime in if there is a better way around this. > >=20 > > If all you are worried about is making your touchpad work in X, and > > you're willing to pull it up in a text editor every time you need to > > make a change, then no, you didn't really miss anything. >=20 > Well, it's the touch pad and keyboard on two laptops, both of which see= m to=20 > not have liked evdev defaults, or modifying xorg.conf, or adding option= s to=20 > the evdev file itself, or adding options to the 50-synaptics.conf file,= or a=20 > 10-keyboard.conf file that I created. >=20 > On the other hand, with a desktop the transition to 1.9 two months or s= o ago=20 > just worked=99. >=20 > > The purpose of xorg.conf.d is to allow packages/utilities/etc to drop= in > > changes to your X config seamlessly, as in, without the user being > > required to take any specific action. For example, the synaptics inp= ut > > driver drops a 50-synaptics.conf file into your xorg.conf.d that > > includes a simple "this is a touchpad" configuration, which would tak= e > > effect just by restarting X. >=20 > Are you talking about the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory or the=20 > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ which I created on my own? I was hoping that any= =20 > additions in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ would take precedence over settings = in=20 > /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and survive an update, but the two seem to = clash=20 > and cause erratic behaviour. If you have a file of the same name in both directories, then the one in /etc should override the one in /usr/share. But the names need to match exactly.