Automagically generate xorg.conf?

[David Bandel]

On 5/29/07, Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
> I am recovering from a hasty install a while back.  I am running gentoo
> with x.org.  Is there some utility that will write the dynamically
> generated config to a file that I can edit?  I have a top end AGP card
> and would like to get something more than the 16 bit depth I currently
> have.  I truly suck at generating xorg.conf files by hand.  (I have yet
> to get one that works, ever.)

Start w/: Xorg -configure (as root)

edit the /root/xorg.conf.new file to suit, then move to /etc/X11 as xorg.conf

You can test before going live with:  X -config ./xorg.conf.new

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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