Re: Location of my xf86config file

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:01:09 -0500

On 02 Mar 2004 22:01:01 GMT, Sybren Stuvel
  <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.imagination.com> wrote:
> Daniel Huang enlightened us with:
>> Tried man XFree86 as well before my first post.
>
> Well, it should simply read /etc/X11/XF86Config or
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, unless you have a heavily modified XFree86...
>
Or maybe the permissions aren't correct. Some programs won't accept a
config file that is writable other than by its owner. I don't know if
that applies to X, but I haven't tried changing the permissions of that
file either. 

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