On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:52:48AM +0000, lux-integ wrote: > Greetings > > My machine has these > CPU amd64, > VGA ATI-radeon > linux clfs/ > > My default xorg7.7 setup has these files in > $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/xorg.conf:- > > 10-evdev.conf > 50-synaptics.conf and > 50-wacom.conf > > > I want to be able to :- > --set a British keyboard, > --use a trackball/ps2-mouse/usb-mouse, > --use the configuration on another machine with nouveau/ > nvidia VGA, > --set different monitor resolutions. > --use multiple monitors when I so wish >
My setup is much simpler than yours - single monitor, only using the default resolution, and prefix /usr. So I don't know if what I say will help. If nothing comes up, perhaps google will know [ these days, it seems to be more attuned to natural language searches instead of the terse searches that used to work so well ]. > > So I have prepared the following files:- > :- > XX-Keyboard.conf > XY-Monitor.conf > YY-mouse.conf > XZ-serverLayout.conf > yZ-screen.conf > > but I dont know what numbers to assign for the XX .. YZ above . I tried > so far :- > 30-Keyboard.conf > 40-Monitor.conf > 50-mouse.conf > 60-serverLayout.conf > 70-screen.conf > and in /etc/x11/xorg.conf.d made X refused to start. X only seems to want > to > start with defaults ( i.e. no discernable xorg.conf file and no ability to > set monitor resolutions, enable use of multiple monitors etc). I'm not sure if your keyboard in X is set up ok, or not. If it isn't, this might help: ken@ac4tv ~ $ls -l /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1099 Aug 25 00:55 10-evdev.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 279 Aug 25 00:57 11-keyboard.conf ken@ac4tv ~ $cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-keyboard.conf # Based on a posting on the xorg lists, adapted # Section "InputClass" Identifier "keyboard-all" Driver "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" Option "XkbModel" "evdev" Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl_alt_bksp" MatchIsKeyboard "on" EndSection From my notes last november, when I updated my xorg build to the modern way, Arch use 10-synaptics.conf and 10-monitor.conf if needed. Might be worth your while checking their wiki : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg I believe the numbering of the conf files is not usually important, but I'm sure the Arch wiki mentioned the details. For a conventional mouse, 10-evdev.conf should cope with whatever appears (e.g. if you hot-plug a USB mouse), so I doubt you need 50-mouse.conf. My view on what you said above is that at least one of the conf files contains something which is wrong. I can vaguely remember the fun and games of moving to the new xorg.conf.d/ on my own simple system (it was a year ago!), so I suggest that you initially concentrate on basics - get keyboard, mouse, and default resolution working. Use startx for this. If you get problems, capture stdout and stderr - it can be hard to isolate the wheat from the chaff in the errors [ e.g. I remember "errors" about missing drivers such as VGA, the real problem was reported after that, hidden away in the noise ]. Probably biest to read the Arch wiki, and perhaps gentoo: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml first to get an overview. Once the basics are working, try adding whatever else you need, ideally one conf file at a time, and again capture the error(s) and then google for it/them. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page