Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

[Mike Mazur <mmazur@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:23, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike Mazur wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:44, Fernando Antunes<fs.antunes@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  I don't use xorg.conf in my notebook Lenovo T61, Intel 965GSM , xorg and
>>> xfce ~x86, gentoo 2.6.30 with KMS, anymore.
>>>   Both kernel and X switch to 1280x800 resolution automatically, xinerama is
>>> disable.
>>>
>> Interesting, so you don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all?
>>
> If you have hal enabled and xorg-server-1.5 or higher, then you don't
> have to have a xorg.conf file.  This is from what I have read.  I have
> yet to get that hal thing to work here.
>
> If you are still on the old xorg-server then you have to have a
> xorg.conf file.

I tried this earlier, running startx without an /etc/X11/xorg.conf in
place, but X didn't start. The error message was something along the
lines of "No screen found."

I'm running:
- x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6
- x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2
- sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r9

Mike