Re: xorg.conf

From: Alex Kelly (aekelly_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/10/05

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To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>

    On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote:
    > On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Alex Kelly wrote:
    >
    >
    > > On 11/10/05, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
    > >
    > >> Alex Kelly wrote:
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>> if you're just interested in seeing if it's there, try this:
    > >>>
    > >>> find / -name "xorg.conf"
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >> Try:
    > >>
    > >> locate xorg.conf
    > >>
    > >> first. Much quicker. If that doesn't find anything then try
    > >> find, but
    > >> with huge disks searching everywhere would take, well, a while.
    > >>
    > >> --Alex
    > >>
    > >
    > > this is true and a good tip. it is quicker. however, xorg.conf could
    > > have been created before his locate database was recomputed to include
    > > it. figured i'd cover all his bases.
    > >
    >
    > Even quicker method (as compared to refreshing a locate database)
    > for searching for a .conf file...
    >
    > find /usr/local/etc /etc -name "BLAH.conf"
    >
    > One should know that almost all conf files are located in /usr/local/
    > etc or /etc in FreeBSD.
    > -Garrett

    one should also know that after executing "Xorg -configure", the
    generated conf file is in /root and not in either /usr/local/etc or
    /etc - it is manually copied to /etc/X11 later.

    so find /usr/local/etc /etc -name "BLAH.conf" is quicker, but will miss the file
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