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   On Sun, 4 May 2025 10:38:37 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:   
      
   > On 04.05.2025 08:09 Uhr Joseph Rosevear wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have some old xorg.conf files, but none of them worked.  I'm trying   
   >> to resurrect an old script I wrote which allows one to boot a Slackware   
   >> system on a flash drive on different machines, providing a box name as   
   >> a boot parameter.  The code reads the box name and finds and uses   
   >> corresponding rc.inet1.conf and xorg.conf files.   
   >   
   > What do you need to configure at X11?   
   > If there is nothing you need to change at X11, don't mess with it. Many   
   > old configs aren't needed nowadays in most situations.   
      
   Perhaps that didn't make sense.  I was testing my script to see if I   
   *could* change the settings.  The script is called rc.JBD.  This   
   invocation checks to see if file /etc/X11/local/xorg.conf- differs   
   from the current xorg.conf:   
      
      /etc/rc.d/rc.JBD box=   
      
   If it differs, it backs up the current xorg.conf, then replaces the   
   contents with what's in the new file.  Or something like that.   
      
   Alternately "box=" can be given on the bootline.  Looking at it now   
   I think this old script needs rewriting.   
      
   Anyway, I was just testing.   
      
   I think you are right about old xorg.conf often not being needed   
   anymore.  Back then I was doing some graphics programming VESA and VGA,   
   and I don't remember what else.   
      
   -Joe   
      
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