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If you have the {{package|system-config-display}} package installed, you can use the ''system-config-display'' command to create a configuration file. You can run it interactively simply by running <tt>system-config-display</tt> as root (or find it in the system menus under System > Administration > Display). This may not work if you cannot run X at all. In this case, you can run it non-interactively by using the <tt>--noui</tt> parameter, like so: | If you have the {{package|system-config-display}} package installed, you can use the ''system-config-display'' command to create a configuration file. You can run it interactively simply by running <tt>system-config-display</tt> as root (or find it in the system menus under System > Administration > Display). This may not work if you cannot run X at all. In this case, you can run it non-interactively by using the <tt>--noui</tt> parameter, like so: | ||
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Revision as of 16:32, 22 September 2010
Fedora releases since Fedora 10 do not create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, used to configure the X server, by default. The X configuration is automatically determined each time X is started. In most cases, this works well and there is no need to manually specify X configuration information.
If you need to make manual changes to X configuration for any reason, you will first need to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. There are several ways of doing this.
system-config-display
system-config-display was deprecated during the Fedora 14 development cycle and will not be available in Fedora 14+.
If you have the 
system-config-display
system-config-display --noui
This will create a clean /etc/X11/xorg.conf file using the automatically detected driver for your video card. If you wish to specify a particular driver for your card you can simply create a standard /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and then edit it by hand, but you can also do this directly with system-config-display. For example, to specify the nv driver, you could do:
system-config-display --noui --set-driver=nv
When using the --set parameters, --noui is implied, so you do not really need to include it. For more information on ways you can use system-config-display, run system-config-display --help.
Xorg -configure
If you do not have the xorg.conf using the X executable itself. As root, run:
Xorg -configure
This will create the file /root/xorg.conf.new, which you can then copy to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and edit according to your needs. Note that this will only work if no X server is currently running.