Re: X config damaged by power failure

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 06:40:17 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I had a power blackout this afternoon (in fact it affected most of
the country -- I live in Venezuela) and after coming back up my X
configuration was damaged. Basically the screen resolution was all
wrong and the Display widget (under Gnome this time) refused to
change it to something reasonable.

This is F9-pre, and there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

I switched to a console, did "init 3" and ran
system-config-display. This worked perfectly and created the
xorg.conf file.

What I'd like to know for future reference is where does an
xorg.conf-less X server gets its configuration from? Is it stored
in a file somewhere, did that file get damaged by the power blip
and thus have strange settings in it (which X simply accepted
without complaint). If it's not stored but regenerated from
hardwired settings, why was it all wrong where previously it had
been right?

I'm happy it all worked out, but I'd like to know what happened.

poc

Since you're on F9-pre, you might be interested in a current
discussion on the devel list to remove xorg.conf completely.

Note well that the devel list is "NOT A SUPPORT LIST"!

Here's a link:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-April/msg02327.html

The discussion doesn't answer your question completely, but it might
be illuminating.

Recommended support resources are given at:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

-dwight-


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