[Xorg] X server autoconfiguration

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Thu Aug 19 09:00:50 PDT 2004


Francois Tigeot wrote:
> With 'X -configure', the X server is able to auto-detect which driver
> to use and write a sample configuration file.
> 
> This mechanism forces to run the server twice, the first time to generate
> a sample xorg.conf file which will be used untouched by the server in a
> second time.
> 
> Is there a way to have the server auto-detect the appropriate graphic
> driver at run time without having to use a temporary configuration file ?

If you have no xorg.conf or XF86config files, it will try to do exactly that
already.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering




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