x server not reading xorg.conf?

[Chris Tyler]

On Sat 2006-09-09 Mike A. Harris <mharris at mharris.ca> wrote:
> > Jason Dravet wrote:
> > I discovered an older copy of my xorg.conf in /root.  X seems to be 
> > using that.  I did not realize X no longer defaults to using 
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf first.
>
> It has never defaulted to looking at /etc/X11/xorg.conf first.

That's odd, Jason and I are in the same parallel universe :-)

If you haven't set the environment variable XORGCONFIG and you haven't
specified a config file on the command line, then according to 'man
xorg.conf', /etc/X11/xorg.conf should be found before /etc/xorg.conf.

This is the search path for non-root users:

           /etc/X11/<cmdline>
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/<cmdline>
           /etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG
           /etc/X11/xorg.conf-4
         * /etc/X11/xorg.conf
         * /etc/xorg.conf
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/xorg.conf.<hostname>
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/xorg.conf-4
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/xorg.conf
           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.<hostname>
           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf-4
           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf

And for root users:

           <cmdline>
           /etc/X11/<cmdline>
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/<cmdline>
           $XORGCONFIG
           /etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG
           $HOME/xorg.conf
           /etc/X11/xorg.conf-4
         * /etc/X11/xorg.conf
         * /etc/xorg.conf
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/xorg.conf.<hostname>
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/xorg.conf-4
           /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/xorg.conf
           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.<hostname>
           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf-4
           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf

The $XORGCONFIG line does not come into play if XORGCONFIG is unset (it
doesn't say "${XORGCONFIG:-.}/xorg.conf" and I've never seen it act that
way).

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Chris Tyler                    http://chris.tylers.info