Searching my system and documentation, I can’t find where X is putting its configuration file now. Used to be in /etc/x11/xorg.conf but it’s not now.
That was as of 11.0. Apparently it has been changed but where?
Searched in the forum and on xorg.foundation which still shows the old location.
Thanks for any help.
There is no xorg.conf now
And if you search the forum, you will find a lorry load of threads about this.
Unless you run sax2, (this is not in the yast menu now, just search kicker)
Whether you need to do that or not,may depend on your graphics.
That’s weird. I have an xorg.conf file under /etc/X11. Is this normal?
It is absolutely normal, a xorg.conf will be created when running SaX2 for example.
I do recommend trying to run the system without a xorg.conf first (should work most times) and create a xorg.conf via SaX2 in case this will not work out. It’s good that SuSE still provides the option of a xorg.conf as a fallback.
This change (of no xorg.conf) actually started as of openSUSE-11.2 and NOT 11.1.
Some of us created a practical graphic theory guide for ATI, nVidia, Intel and Chrome/via users here: openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users - openSUSE Forums
Please look at that … hopefully that will answer a few of the questions.
As I posted in another thread, sax2 fails on my laptop (bug 586112) so I can’t create the xorg.conf.
Thanks for the link oldcpu! I’ll have a look at it.
Read through the tutorial thread which did answer some questions but not about where the configuration is stored initially (i.e. where the “default” settings are stored).
I’m trying to track down what setting is causing the display to go blank after 10 minutes regardless of what I set in KDE settings. 
Read through the tutorial thread which did answer some questions but not about where the configuration is stored initially
The display hardware is detected dynamically on boot by HAL, so the configuration is not stored in a file. Where xorg.conf exists, it will be used.
An interesting article concerning Xorg development:
[Phoronix] The xorg.conf.d Patches Emerge](http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzgxNw)
I’m trying to track down what setting is causing the display to go blank after 10 minutes regardless of what I set in KDE settings.
This could be a BIOS setting. Also worthwhile checking KDE power management settings
System Settings > Advanced > Power Management
Disable ‘screen powersaving’ if applicable.
This was a bug/pain in earlier versions of KDE4, but I confess I have not seen this in openSUSE-11.2’s KDE-4.3.1. As noted by deano_ferrari this is likely a power management/screen-saver function. Even with the bug, one can tune this so as to NOT switch OFF the display after 10 minutes.
deano_ferrari, that is an interesting read … I’ve read of that before, and I’m curious to learn when Novell/SuSE-GmbH will adopt it. I recall reading somewhere else that some distributions have already moved to drop “HAL” for this functionality, but other distributions (such as SuSE-GmbH with openSUSE) are still using HAL. Knowing when the implementation is finally launched for openSUSE will be useful to know, in understanding the reason for either a surge or a drop in reported problems (and may lead to different techinques to solve problems).
For the moment, as a regular user like most of the rest of us on this forum, I guess all we can do is watch and test with our hardware (as a minimum using the liveCD on each PC) each of the milestone releases when they come out. At least that is how I typically go about this and in the case of xorg using the liveCD is not such a bad test.
I talked with cb400f in #opensuse-factory and obtained the following information.
<Jonathan_R> when will openSUSE drop hal and switch to udisk?
<cb400f> did you see: rdieter: kde and why we still need hal
Jonathan_R> cb400f, thats going to be a problem then
<Jonathan_R> since xorg is dropping hal and going with udisks
<cb400f> hal is kept for 11.3 afaik… dunno if that rules out using the other stuff
<cb400f> but 11.3 will be feature frozen in about 2 months anyway
I’d also recommend you ake a look at this, since this has played a part in the decision https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeviceKit_versus_SolidHAL
I hope this helps a bit.
Thanks fo the additional info Jonathan. So it looks like 11.3 will continue to use HAL with Xorg for now.
I hadn’t realised DeviceKit was now called udisks, or how far openSUSE had utilised it yet.
I’ve got power-management disabled, screen saver set to “polygons” for 16 minutes, suspend set to 103 minutes, yet the problem persists.
This is not a big problem, more of an annoyance. The display comes right back up when the mouse is moved or on keyboard input.
I’ll also look into the information from deanno_ferrari and Jonathan_R about udisks.
Thanks for all the replies!:\
I’ll also look into the information from deanno_ferrari and Jonathan_R about udisks.
That was more of a digression from your problem. Have you checked the BIOS settings for screen powersaving?
I was also wondering Tommy
What version of openSUSE are you now using?
Your sig implies 11.3 M3
Yes, that’s the version I’m using. Build 475 DVD install.
uname -a:
Linux laptop 2.6.33-5-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-02-25 20:06:12 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
This behavior did not occur in 11.2 on the same laptop. Showed up in the 11.3 series. I’d try putting it on another computer but this is my only 64 bit machine.
I’ve checked the bios settings just to make sure that nothing had been changed.
This is something in kde4.4
I have the same issue in 11.2 and 11.3
As 11.3 is development you should be posting bug reports,but as I say I’m sure it’s kde4 related. I notice a setting that is now missing in the config. Here is how it use to be
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I’m working on it too
So far, with power setting using ‘Presentation’ rather than ‘Performance’, it seems to be working. The screen stays powered on.