[indiana-discuss] Does xorg.conf get generated on installation of build 118?

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Sat Jul 18 04:35:01 PDT 2009


Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM>
writes:

> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Can someone tell me if a /etc/X11/xorg.conf is generated during the
>> course of installing build 118?
>
> No, we've never generated an xorg.conf during OpenSolaris install.
>
>> I see one under /etc/X11 but there is some chance I've gone fully
>> senile and I'm the one who put it there.  I was thinking about
>> it... but don't recall actually doing it...
>
> If you're running in VirtualBox, the VirtualBox guest additions
> install might have done it.    The nvidia display preferences
> dialog box can also make one for you, if run with root privs.

Maybe thats what happened... It does appear to be required to get an X
desktop though.  If I rename it... X fails with `no screens found'.




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