Can't generate xorg.conf

[ctshiner]

This seems like something that would have been a 10 second fix in the old days but has been a HUGE pain in my *** for the last 3 hours now.

Anyway, I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and so have no xorg.conf. If I try to generate one using

sudo xorg -configure

its gives the error "Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed"

All I want to do is add a few extra lines to my video card drivers to get World of Warcraft working. Can I manually create xorg.conf and ONLY add the lines I need or do I need the complete file? How do I know the name of the drivers I am using so I can do it manually? I will end up with something like this according to Wine's wiki:

Section "Device"   
  Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[Amity wine]]ver      "fglrx"
  Option       "Capabilities" "0x00000800" 
  Option       "UseFastTLS" "off"   
  Option       "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0" 
EndSection

[Yellow Pasque]

EDIT: just noticed the example you used was not from your computer.
Post your ./var/log/Xorg.0.log

[ctshiner]

Thanks for the reply, I got frustrated through and went back to 10.10, all is well now Running the same xorg edgers drivers in both version, must be a bug

[bodmerocity]

Bump. Having exact same problem as this guy only I'm trying to get my mouse to work. Any other way to create xorg.conf?

[QUOTE=ctshiner;10681387]This seems like something that would have been a 10 second fix in the old days but has been a HUGE pain in my *** for the last 3 hours now.

Anyway, I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and so have no xorg.conf. If I try to generate one using

sudo xorg -configure

its gives the error "Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed"

[asd1618033]

xorg.conf is deprecated

new config files:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf

evdev.conf stores input informations, like keyboard and mouse
monitor.conf stores infos about video driver and monitor specs
synaptics.conf stores info about synaptics touchpad.

@ thread starter: create 10-monitor.conf (generally it doesn't exist beacuse kernel uses KMS, if I am not wrong) and insert your video drivers / monitor / screen infos.

example of 10-monitor.conf:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Device0"
    Driver        "fglrx" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Screen0"  #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section
    Device        "Device0"
    Monitor       "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth  16 #Choose the depth (16||24)
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     16
        Modes     "1024x768" #Choose the resolution
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[bodmerocity]

So how do I add my mouse?

I try touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and it says 'no such file or directory'.

[sdowney717]

those folders and files dont exist
maybe they should exist, but maybe not, no one really knows
If they are not showing there then IMO they are not there.
I have an xorg.conf
Did you ever solve your problem?

[mpollmeier]

maybe a bit late now, but for other users: the xorg config files are now located in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d

also see http://askubuntu.com/questions/37761...tu-natty-11-04

[desiph3r]

I can't find monitor.conf file on my 11.04 system and I'm trying to configure extended desktop on my ait Radeon X300SE PCI card.


./usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
./usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/examples/xorg.conf
./usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
./usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
./usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom.conf
./usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-vmmouse.conf
./usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-synaptics-quirks.conf
./usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-quirks.conf
./usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

When I configure the extended desktop screen 2 gets all pixels meshed together.

[desiph3r]

Here are my specs on the graphics card.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]


*-display:0
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
resources: irq:43 memory:dc000000-ddffffff memory:dfde0000-dfdeffff ioport:dc00(size=256) memory:dfe00000-dfe1ffff
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:dfdf0000-dfdfffff