Hi Alan, Thanks for the info, that fixed the first problem. I had assumed that Xorg was looking in the config dir listed in the Xorg log, which was obviously a poor assumption.
Thanks again, James On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 12/14/11 14:08, James Strother wrote: >> >> Problem 1: Unable to access config file at non-default location as >> non-root >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This seems like an extremely simple problem, but I'm stumped. I have >> written an alt.conf file, and place it into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. The >> file exists, is owned by root, and has permissions of 644. It shows >> up on ls just fine: >> >> $ ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d >> alt.conf >> >> But I can't actually get Xorg to find or use that file: >> >> $ Xorg :1 -config alt.conf > > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d is not the location for alternate configuration files - > it's used for config file fragments to be used by *ALL* Xorg instances run > on > the system. > > The xorg.conf man page lists the directories you can put alternate > configuration > files in (I just noticed that Xorg(1) man page does not, though it does > point you off to the xorg.conf man page for the full list). > > For instance, for testing, I have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.dummy config file > that > loads the dummy driver, which I can run with Xorg -config xorg.conf.dummy, > and > in our OS packages, we ship /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.vesa so that the OS > installer > can run Xorg -config xorg.conf.vesa when the normal drivers fail on the > LiveCD > and the user chooses the VESA mode option from the grub menu instead. > > >> I expected this to connect to the graphics card at PCI:12:0:0 in order >> to create a one monitor screen. However, Xorg actually connects to >> both cards and then only displays on the graphics card at PCI:8:0:0. >> I have tried setting AutoAddDevices/AutoEnableDevices to false in >> ServerFlags without success. > > > The AutoAddDevices/AutoEnableDevices flags only apply to input devices > not video cards. (I can't explain the rest of your issue here, just > that bit.) > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com