This might help might not…
As I run Arch what I’ve discovered is the snippets seem to be in addition to, my xorg.conf is still being read for my custom edid and it is reading evdev from conf.d to set my keyboard as gb.
I don’t see why it would help you, as apart from your keyboard, and mouse possibly, your xorg.conf is overriding both X’s auto-config and conf.d files. It will only help you if you want to deprecate your xorg.conf and migrate relevant sections into conf.d files.
The object of the exercise is to move away from xorg.conf especially for users who would find it difficult or unwelcome. The xorg.conf.d is mainly there for vendors to place any special configuration snippets to override X’s auto-config.
The cases I read where the xorg.conf “seemed” to be ignored were associated with either the nouveau driver or the fglrx driver. Both are documented as areas users may need to look out for.
If one has the proprietary fglrx rpm installed, and then tries to go back to radeon or vesa, dependant on the proprietary ATI graphic driver version, this may not work. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it does not, no matter what one has in their /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. The solution is to remove the fglrx rpm.
If one has the nouveau driver installed (which is default for openSUSE-11.3) then to switch to another driver one needs to both blacklist the driver and do a change to the /etc/sysconfig . Only then will any entry in an /etc/X11/xorg.conf be followed. This is also true for Fedora, but I do NOT know the Fedora way of doing this.
I’ve done my best to document that in the graphic configuration guide for openSUSE. I note NONE of the existing openSUSE wiki for graphics go into the detail for blacklisting the nouveau driver, and how to do it.
The wiki team have moved the guide I wrote (wrote to close my action in a bug report) to here for now: SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE
… it still needs work to :
(1) update the UDEV section for experts
(2) integrate it MUCH better into existing wiki
Plus general clean up and other changes to make it more readable while still retaining the essential technical content will hopefully be an ongoing thing.
Still searching for the perfect thing! So let’s help the hero!
But so long let us give oldcpu a big
THANKS
and a warm hug for this enormous work!
pistazienfresser
Yeah, Many Thanks oldcpu.
Will be reading the new wiki section soon [watching world cup right now]. Here’s something from Fedora Project that I’ll be reading at the same time:
Input device configuration - FedoraProject
Don’t know till I read it thoroughly if it will help clarify what we can/should do to solve problems with the new dynamic configuration. Been searching/reading on this issue and I know and understand things better now. But not better enough yet.
At any rate thanks to oldcpu we openSuSE users have some documentation to work with. Much appreciated.
Excellent link! Thanks.
When 11.3 is installed take care xorg.conf and nvidia 256.35 are copied to /user/home
reboot with acpi_enforce_resources=no 3
to runlevel 3
login as root
rm -r /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
rm -r /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d if this is 11.3
cp user/home/xorg.conf /etc/X11 xorg.conf (11.1)
cd /user/home and install nvida 256.35
What will happen then on reboot with the xserver ???
will it crash or run like 11.2 ??
With 11.3 RC1 deleteting /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
and installing nvidia 256.35 or newest catalist works
but take care the xorg.conf 11.1/12.1 style is needed then with Option “AutoAddDevices” “off”
The xserver is looking for /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
not found then /etc/X11/xorg.conf
So what ever you add for xserver you have to config in xorg.conf examples on internet for opensuse 10 11 and 12
Woo Hoo! This worked for my Nvidia ION and atom 330 mobo. I deleted my montor data and inserted this in it’s place. I used the Nvidia X Server Settings tool to ratchet up my resolution from 1024 to 1600. Gaaaaaaaaa! Two weeks of work to fix this…I will now bookmark this page. Don’t forget to either rename or delete your xorg.config file…
Master Rod
ps Oooohh, what a lovely picture. You look Mavelous, simply Mavelous…
rrdonovan,
Thank you I wondered if my screwy idea would help anybody! I’m very happy to see that it still works:)