generate xorg.conf from current configuration

**Gatemaze** · May 9th, 2010

Hi,

xorg nowadays does not use a xorg.conf. Is it possibly to make it "spill out" one of the current configuration though?

Thanks,
GM

**samsonasu** · May 11th, 2010

I agree this would be pretty helpful right now.

**Point & Click** · May 14th, 2010

Oh man, would that be helpful!

Does the logfile help you at all?

Code:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

I'm pulling my hair out trying to get an old laptop going because Xorg & HAL aren't able to auto-detect the display's available resolutions properly (for whatever reason).

So, I'm looking around trying to piece together which bits I need from the automatically detected configuration, and which bits I need to supply.

I have been looking at the logfile and while it doesn't supply a ready formatted, complete xorg.conf it will give you a lot of details to generate one from.

But I'm still looking for a better solution...

**Gatemaze** · May 14th, 2010

Thanks P&C, it is some progress... but still a "write_xorg" of the current configuration would be ideal

**Point & Click** · May 19th, 2010

I've spent some more time looking at this and it would appear that it is possible afterall...

In my case, (Ubuntu 9.10) I booted into the recovery mode and ran

Code:

Xorg -configure

This tells you that it generates the configuration file: /root/xorg.conf.new

It also says that running the following will test it:

Code:

X -config /root/xorg.conf.new

However, in my case I was pleasantly greated with black text on a black background with a black cursor - either that or it didn't work...

2nd time around:

Code:

cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
shutdown  -r now

This appears to startup my laptop "normally", so I now have a configuration file to start playing with.

I have yet to check the logfile, etc, but I thought it answered your original post, so I thought I'd post asap

Hope it helps you (or anyone else!) out...