Unless it's for fallback it creates just as many problems having one. The X.org maintainers probably know what's best for clients, versus trusting the downstream vendors to craft X.org files with depreciated settings.
James On Jun 13, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: > Would not the 'probe always at start' be slower compared to have to > read > from xorg.conf? > I know that Xorg is not going to be started again and again, but is > there any reason to not have a config file? > > Siva > > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Gilles Gravier wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> So there's no .xorg.conf in /etc/X11 like there was in Solaris / >>> SolarisExpress (at least not after image-update). So where do I >>> find the >>> default .xorg.conf ? >> >> There is no default xorg.conf on any release of Solaris. All of >> them >> probe your hardware and autodetect settings by default. >> >> What you see in /etc/X11/.xorg.conf on some releases is generated >> by running >> Xorg -configure at boot time, before X starts, and is only used to >> provide >> a template for xorgcfg to edit - the X server knows nothing about it. >> >> If you want to make your own xorg.conf, our advice has always been >> to drop >> to command line mode (which on 2008.05 means "svcadm disable gdm"), >> login >> and run /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -configure (as root or with pfexec/sudo). >> > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
