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  • From: "Robert Helgesson" <rycee AT home.se>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Problem with X.org server
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:57:19 +0200

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 13:40:37 +1200, Robin Sheat wrote:
> Hey, I've just moved to the X.org Xserver, and I have a problem with it
> that I suspect is user-error. Pretty much the first thing it says when
> starting up is:
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jun 3 13:29:00 2004
> (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
> It then tries to build a default config, which doesn't quite work for my
> install (it doesn't like my mouse or something). My /etc/X11 is still
> full of all the stuff from XF86:
> root@kallisti:/etc/X11# ls
> XF86Config-4 XF86Config.old fs twm xkb
> XF86Config-4.old XF86Config.old2 lbxproxy wmconfig xserver
> XF86Config.def XF86Config.works proxymngr xdm xsm
> XF86Config.mdk app-defaults rstart xinit
> (many iterations of tuning the config :)
>
> Should the new one be called something different or be in a different
> place?

X.org uses /etc/X11/xorg.conf I believe. Try copying over your working
XFree86 config there.

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