From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Wed Jun 5 19:13:07 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643C715B6491 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 19:13:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59DA28F36D for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 19:13:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.206] (cpe-23-243-162-239.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.162.239]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 4ae4e6c6 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Wed, 5 Jun 2019 19:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Config file location? To: Kevin Oberman , Gary Jennejohn Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" , "Ronald F. Guilmette" References: <48768.1559715227@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <20190605093524.0003d560@ernst.home> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 12:13:03 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 59DA28F36D X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.03 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.97)[-0.974,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.24)[0.236,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mail.nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.93)[-0.933,0]; IP_SCORE(-0.05)[asn: 25795(-0.19), country: US(-0.06)]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 19:13:07 -0000 On 6/5/19 7:47 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > X looks for xorg.conf in a bunch of places, but the traditional /etc/X11 > still works and I use it. just wanted to add a little color to this discussion (and i should not that use /etc/X11/xorg.conf frequently out of habit as well) but you no longer need to supply a fully Xorg configuration.  X will look under /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ for config snippets.  for example here's a snippet to enable amdgpu on a system: Section "OutputClass"     Identifier "AMDgpu"     MatchDriver "amdgpu"     Driver "amdgpu" from an admin perspective this is pretty sweet as now i only have to deploy overrides for the default configuration as autodetection works pretty well these days.  also, when you install additional xf86 packages (like xf86-video-amdgpu or xf86-input-libinput) example configs are dropped here for reference: /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ cheers, -p -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA