Harry Putnam wrote:
> Since Opensolaris apprears to get the instructions for xorg by some
> other technique.. I wonder if a user can even setup an xorg.conf file
> and have it work.
Actually Linux & OpenSolaris Xorg are completely identical in this aspect,
which is not surprising, since they're the same source base, except for a
few patches each distro applies.
If you start Xorg with no /etc/X11/xorg.conf, the Xorg configure probes your
hardware and adopts a reasonable default configuration. If you need to
override those defaults, you can create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf for them.
Many Linux distros still ship with xorg.conf files by default because they
set that up when XFree86 required a configuration file, before autoconfiguration
was added in XFree86 4.3, but some have started dropping the default files
now that autoconfiguration has improved to the point it's not needed in most
cases.
Solaris first adopted Xorg after autoconfiguration was in place, so we've
just always defaulted to not having one. You can see the autogenerated
default config in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and copy it out from there, or stop
the X server (svcadm disable gdm) and then run Xorg -configure to probe
the hardware and output a config file.
> The card is a: GeForce FX 5700LE
Nvidia also provides a configuration GUI (nvidia-settings) and a command
line interface (nvidia-xconfig) with their driver that handles specific
configuration tasks for their hardware and produces the necessary xorg.conf.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
