[OpenIndiana-discuss] making dual monitor support persistent across reboots

[Jerry Kemp]

please see inline comments.


On 08/26/12 07:31 PM, Jan Owoc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.cc> wrote:
>> The Xorg man page suggest I need a "xorg.conf" file in /etc or one of
>> several other locations.
> 
> Yes, there are specific locations from where Xorg will read the file.
> 
> 
>> The Nvidia X Server GUI appears to create one for me, using the "Save to
>> X Configuration File" button under X Server Display Configuration.
>> Unfortunately, generating this file then saving it as xorg.conf doesn't
>> appear to be enough.
> 
> This file that was generated... did you put it in /etc (or one of the
> named directories), or did it end up in your home folder (not one of
> the locations Xorg looks)?

based on the Xorg man page, I have done /etc/ and /etc/X11/ .  The
/usr/etc/ directory did not exist.

> 
> 
>> Is there some special trick to get this working correctly?  This seems
>> like it ought to be a pretty simple thing, at least it was with Xsun.
> 
> This misplacing of xorg.conf was the mistake I made and fixing it
> solved my problem. You may have other issues, but let's tackle the
> obvious one first.
> 

So where specifically do you have yours placed?

> 
> The next step would be that Xorg probably reads the various xorg.confs
> in a specific order, so the default one may be read before yours. Are
> you able to look at X's log file to determine which one is actually
> being used when X starts?

Running "find" from / indicates that there are no other xorg.conf files
on my system, other that the one I have created.

Thank you for your reply.

> 
> 
> Jan
>