[ale] Fedora 17 and X11

Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet.org
Wed Oct 23 10:37:14 EDT 2013


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:20:12AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
> My X isn't working any more, gdm starts but I can't log in. I want to
> reconfigure it if possible. I got to many virts on it that I don't
> want to have reformat.

Well, if it used to work, but doesn't now, the logs would be a good 
place to start to see where thing went wrong:  /var/log/Xorg.*.log

> I notice that F17 doesn't use xorg.conf. So how would I got about 
> reconfiguring X11, I did Google and it not my friend, I saw a lot 
> people in the same boat as me, and what was weird a lot of the answer 
> dealt with grub2, which confuse me. Why would you mess with grub to 
> reconfig X11?

It's automagic these days (though you can specify it manually) which is 
a vast, vast improvement.

 - Solomon
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