where is xorg.conf gone?

[Netorious]

Hi everyone,

I just purchased a new display and now I am running my system with the resolution of higher than 1280x1024. Well in nvidia-settings there is no resolution higher than that. And i decided to edit the xorg.conf and write the appropriate settings for that resolution . But there is nothing in it?

I searched upon google and got that some settings are in /home/user/.nvidia-settings-rc. OK ,there is nothing that points me to resolution or gives xorg settings.where are they gone - where can I configure the resolution higher than 1280x1024?

[Dr. V]

Hello,

You can access it easily from the reserved location for configuration of the display settings.you could use a xorg.conf of a live-disk by the copy and paste procedure .you could use to enter into the terminal (ctrl+alt+F1), stop gdm.

etc/init.d/gdm stop:
Xorg -configure
mv /root/xorg.conf-new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And restart the GDM.

[Netorious]

Hi sir,
I got something now - standard configuration ( xorg.conf ) created has some bugs. So xorg.conf is still used. After getting this file i am confused to put my values to set the proper resolution for the display but I am not getting where it should be tagged.

Anyway - I am still not able to use resolution higher than that 1280x1024 - not possible to set this in which section ???? please help me out.

[Solomon]

The xorg.conf contains a lot of code and parameters with different sections. You have to search the proper place to put your values at appropriate place.

Section "Device"
	Identifier "Default Device"
	Driver "nvidia"
	Option "NoLogo" "True"
	Option "FlatPanelProperties" "Scaling = Native"
EndSection

You need to add this parameter and associated values with the FlatPanelProperties option in xorg.conf Device section.

[MrChris-]

If you are not getting the exact solution for now then you have go for some advance changes for proper configuration for resolution of the display.You need to check the logs for that.

Just go to

/var/log/Xorg.0.log.

That is nearly always the starting point for tracking down the issues.