Leslie Katz wrote: ... > Inspired by your suggestions, I now have copies of Fedora's and > Knoppix's xorg.conf files on a drive accessible by both those distros > and by Windows as well. I've printed those copies out (using Windows, > which is all I can print from right now). I'll compare them and then > try to cobble together a replacement Fedora file taking in the > relevant bits about the new monitor from the Knoppix file. I'll then > copy that to the partition that has the current Fedora xorg.conf file > and then try to boot up in Fedora. There's a little gui-text-editor program called 'meld' which is just awesome for this. Usually used for merging source code files. if you install it you can do $meld xorg.conf.knoppix xorg.conf.fedora it will open the two files, side by side, with the differences intuitively colour coded and allow you to merge the differences from one into the other with a clicky clicky, as well as copy & paste or even type. (Although avoiding typing is good, typos are more painful in configuration than usual)
/me used to use vimdiff, not anymore :-) I believe there are others that do similar stuff, eg kdiff3 Still you can't beat a dead tree sometimes too... when you edit your xorg.conf, don't forget to comment it up: #copied from knoppix auto-generated xorg.conf 17/6/06 for new monitor (model details etc) So you know wtf you did and why you did it 2 years hence when you no longer recall didly-squat about it. Some whack their entire /etc into $source_control_system (cvs, svn, etc.) So they have a full history. I'm not that keen myself but the general principle is sound. Gui-configuration utility programs don't let you write comments, despite other advantages. Regards, Hal PS breaking your X conf is a great way to get comfortable doing stuff with only the command line, worked for me to some extent anyway... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
