Talk:Xorg.conf

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I changed this redirect to instead of redirecting to "X Window System" it redirects to "XF86Config" (because the files are nearly identical). If XF86Config is not changed in the future to something like "X config file" or "xorg.conf" (this is the name in X.org) we might want to change this page to redirect to "X.org Server". --80.63.213.182 13:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Revert to 19:58, 3 March 2008

This article (example xorg.conf) was removed on grounds "Wikipedia is not the Linux documentation". The similar article 'XF86config' only provides a description of its respective configuration file. Unfortunately this can be a bit vague, and it seems that the very-well documented xorg.conf submitted on "19:58, 3 March 2008" provides a much more apt overview.

While Wikipedia is certainly not the Linux Documentation, it strives to provide a very broad scope of information. Reimplementing "19:58, 3 March 2008" certainly serves this purpose and furthermore complements the article 'X.Org Server'. The comments in the provided example Xorg.conf back up the sparse information regarding AIGLX(see Wikipedia article), XGL(see that article as well) as well as the NVidia-specific implementation.

Since Xorg is now modular xorg.conf is pretty volatile. This is with the addition of xrandr 1.2 which changes dual-screen layouts considerably. (Notwithstanding that Nvidia, ATI and intel implementations vary to some extent). That would mean this article would have to contain considerably more information and be updated frequently.

It seems to me that the X server is a rather important topic, certainly not specific enough to be nit-picky about "Linux Documentation". Its equivalent is Microsoft's WDDM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model). Whereas WDDM is static, X's end-user configurability seems to necessitate a decent Xorg.conf Wikipedia article.

Some links/documentation:

http://linux.die.net/man/5/xorg.conf (yeah its pretty long)