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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Getting current config
From:       James - <coyoteboyuk () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2010-09-24 9:08:51
Message-ID: BLU149-W162D001F3D3FA2B2895D72AE620 () phx ! gbl
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Morning all (here at least), newb here!

I've got a problem with the new (to me) .conf-less config, in that I need to add a \
driver (ELO Serial touchscreen) into the xorg.conf, or at least that is what all of \
the instructions I find tell me, as it isn't auto-detected. The problem is I no \
longer have a xorg.conf as I'm in Ubuntu 10.04 and it's all done dynmaically. I tried \
creating a new xorg.conf to over-ride the dynamic setup and allow me to add to it by \
using 

Xorg -configure 
and later, after hours of black screens...
Xorg -configure -retro

but both give me black screens and seem to take away my keyboard input. IS there a \
better way of "dumping" current, dynamically found, config to a .conf for \
modification? It would seem pretty obvious that there is an option for this as such \
tweaks are pretty common and to have to write one from scratch seems a bit daft if \
the computer already "knows" one that works, but I can't track down how to do it.

If there's a better way of achieving the addition of the touchscreen I'd love to know \
that instead, the drivers come in the distro pre-compiled. The instructions for \
installation suggest adding an inputdevice section and adding a line to the \
serverlayout section, now I can add a .conf for the inputdevice section into the \
xorg.conf.d no problem, but where do I add the serverlayout section? I'd need to \
include the whole current serverlayout, which I don't know, or I'm just guessing.

Cheers
James

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Morning all (here at least), newb here!<br><br>I've got a problem with the new (to \
me) .conf-less config, in that I need to add a driver (ELO Serial touchscreen) into \
the xorg.conf, or at least that is what all of the instructions I find tell me, as it \
isn't auto-detected. The problem is I no longer have a xorg.conf as I'm in Ubuntu \
10.04 and it's all done dynmaically. I tried creating a new xorg.conf to over-ride \
the dynamic setup and allow me to add to it by using <br><br>Xorg -configure <br>and \
later, after hours of black screens...<br>Xorg -configure -retro<br><br>but both give \
me black screens and seem to take away my keyboard input. IS there a better way of \
"dumping" current, dynamically found, config to a .conf for modification? It would \
seem pretty obvious that there is an option for this as such tweaks are pretty common \
and to have to write one from scratch seems a bit daft if the computer already \
"knows" one that works, but I can't track down how to do it.<br><br>If there's a \
better way of achieving the addition of the touchscreen I'd love to know that \
instead, the drivers come in the distro pre-compiled. The instructions for \
installation suggest adding an inputdevice section and adding a line to the \
serverlayout section, now I can add a .conf for the inputdevice section into the \
xorg.conf.d no problem, but where do I add the serverlayout section? I'd need to \
include the whole current serverlayout, which I don't know, or I'm just \
guessing.<br><br>Cheers<br>James<br> 		 	   		  </body> </html>

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