Where is xorg.conf?!

[clockworks]

Hello,
I installed Kubuntu 8.10 yesterday on my laptop with Radeon Mobility x300. I then installed flgrx via aptitude. After I did that and rebooted, desktop effects were no longer working. So I tried to open up /etc/xorg.conf to debug and to my surprise, it is a completely empty file.

How is X even working with a blank xorg.conf file?! What is going on?

Thanks for the help.

[footer]

Re: Where is xorg.conf?!

xorg.conf is located in /etc/X11

[clockworks]

Re: Where is xorg.conf?!

Yeah, that's what I meant to type. /etc/X11/xorg.conf is a blank file (zero bytes). Yet X is running just fine (well, minus the glx problems).

Any ideas?

[Jeremiah]

Re: Where is xorg.conf?!

LOL

I don't mean to laugh at your pain, but a few of us are in the same boat and sometimes you just have to let out a good laugh to stay sane.

It appears as though something is going wrong with video card drivers in 8.10. I had the same xorg waning you likely got. In the end, in order to get my system back up and running I had to reinstall my ATI proprietary driver. (The standard driver in Kubuntu was not working with my card and causing freezes/hangs/corruption.)

Try booting via recovery mode. (Don't even bother with any of the fix x or damaged package tools, just boot.) If you can get in that way you can do the reinstall somewhat painlessly that way.

[clockworks]

Re: Where is xorg.conf?!

The weird thing is that I don't even need to boot in recovery mode. Booting normally works fine, X starts up and I can login like normal through the graphical interface (KDM?). It's just that 3D doesn't work (glxinfo outputs errors) and my xorg.conf file is blank!

And yes, you're right about having a good laugh. I abandoned Linux over year ago in favor of OS X (which "just works" very nicely, btw). I've always been a Linux and KDE fan (8 years), so I decided to give KDE 4.1 a whirl. How quickly I'm reminded on why I was drawn to OS X... but all this tweaking and configuration is what makes Linux fun, right?