It's not noticably slower, and it copes much better with changing hardware,
not causing unexpected failures when people change cards, or plug in additional
monitors, etc. It's also much safer on upgrades to new versions, where we
don't have to regenerate everyone's xorg.conf with newly added extensions, etc.
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote:
> Would not the 'probe always at start' be slower compared to have to read
> from xorg.conf?
> I know that Xorg is not going to be started again and again, but is
> there any reason to not have a config file?
>
> Siva
>
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Gilles Gravier wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> So there's no .xorg.conf in /etc/X11 like there was in Solaris /
>>> SolarisExpress (at least not after image-update). So where do I find the
>>> default .xorg.conf ?
>>
>> There is no default xorg.conf on any release of Solaris. All of them
>> probe your hardware and autodetect settings by default.
>>
>> What you see in /etc/X11/.xorg.conf on some releases is generated by
>> running
>> Xorg -configure at boot time, before X starts, and is only used to
>> provide
>> a template for xorgcfg to edit - the X server knows nothing about it.
>>
>> If you want to make your own xorg.conf, our advice has always been to
>> drop
>> to command line mode (which on 2008.05 means "svcadm disable gdm"), login
>> and run /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -configure (as root or with pfexec/sudo).
>>
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