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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On May 29, 2005, at 11:42 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Herv=E9 Kergourlay wrote:
>> xorgconfig
>> I launch this tools but I 'm not sure of the screen resolution=20
>> details, vertical refresh rate, horizontal sync rate, ...
>> I fill the answers with standard values
> Do not do this. You must have the details for you monitor. Especially=20=

> if it is a CRT, it could even kill it if the details are wrong.
>
>> but at the end, no xorg.conf file is written on the disk in /etc/X11 =
?
>>
> It has to be there.

No it doesn't.  xorgcfg actually defaults to writing xorg.conf to some=20=

subdirectory of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 or some such nowadays rather than=20
/etc/X11.  You can see that path when you ask it to save the=20
configuration.  Probably the docs need to be updated to include the=20
other more cryptic path as another place to look besides /etc/X11.

--=20
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