Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:49:15 -0500 From: Alex Kelly <aekelly@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xorg.conf Message-ID: <31a749ec0511101249s6062da57ibb9e3562328e264@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5541566F-7999-4AB2-9761-CF85878CF4A8@u.washington.edu> References: <5541566F-7999-4AB2-9761-CF85878CF4A8@u.washington.edu>
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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/loc= al/ > 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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