From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxaKF-0001ia-1v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:03:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6R127mg014297; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:02:07 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6R0wQ9J003697 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:58:26 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v1so46259nzb for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:58:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pA7cPRHypv5mSAvrYNAfCHsOmGWmX2xwBlkgxvmKR4aL671Vabb1AcUa1/enYmyYXc7cu1owEpsx/rXEXtf0NZ6XI0ZtSZ6jt4aqRGkj5Y93YHjQc9vozpuCXTci4hNExg7W/hVS3vG6H6Ja7XMoRHLpiG9pkQRgJJpr8GmAVPQ= Received: by 10.36.252.15 with SMTP id z15mr309207nzh; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.40? ([69.146.56.6]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 39sm114538nzk.2005.07.26.17.58.38; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42E6DC3D.20409@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:58:37 -0600 From: George Roberts User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone References: <42E6CD33.6010100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b882e835-17e3-4e8e-958a-ed8531cce600 X-Archives-Hash: 556cedb562240d2ce9e23dc1563aadc9 Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Check man xorg.conf and it will give you the locations searched for > xorg.conf. > > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: > >> I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my >> mouse is > > > Snip > >> I was under the impression that the folder /etc/X11is the folder only >> scanned and used. That is why I put the backup copy there. My >> question is: is this behavior a know thing and I missed it, or can >> others be bitten by this also? >> >> P.S. the mouse is still not scrolling. Any help with this would be >> great. >> Thanks >> >> > Thanks, it seems the system searchs farther than I understood. Based on what I have read on gdm, the X server is started by a non-privliged user, to avoid possiblities of exploition of the system via the login area. If this is in fact true then the search for the xorg.conf file would be limited to the /usr or /etc folders, not the / folder. Does there need to be an update to the man file, or is this a undocumented feature? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list