Jianjun Mao said the following at 04/24/2012 08:43 AM :
That's right... There's no xorg.conf in Ubuntu, either. But in arch, using X -configure to create the configuration file makes everything simpler? Of course this works fine in my laptop.
I tried X -configure and received this response: ---- X.Org X Server 1.12.1 Release Date: 2012-04-13 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 3.3.1-1-ARCH i686 Current Operating System: Linux shack 3.3.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 14 10:08:43 UTC 2012 i686 Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/04611735-3010-419b-8755-dd7dfe4b371b ro Build Date: 14 April 2012 07:32:51AM Current version of pixman: 0.24.4 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Apr 24 17:08:58 2012 List of video drivers: openchrome vesa (++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new" (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed. Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file. ---- Perhaps the fact that I have to use VNC-over-ssh to reach the system in question is causing a problem? In any case, no file xorg.conf is being created when I execute "X -configure". I can access and use these fonts just fine in applications (such as the xfce desktop settings), so it's very frustrating that making them directly accessible to X is for some reason proving so difficult :-( Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR