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Today I was checking my xorg.conf file. There I notice no section for monitor or mouse. I think these entries should be there. Is it normal to have xorg.conf without ...
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    monitor and mouse section is missing in xorg.conf

    Today I was checking my xorg.conf file. There I notice no section for monitor or mouse. I think these entries should be there. Is it normal to have xorg.conf without these infos missing? My xorg.conf output is following
    Code:
    # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
            Identifier     "single head configuration"
            Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
            InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Files"
    
    EndSection
    
    Section "ServerFlags"
            Option      "AIGLX" "on"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier  "Keyboard0"
            Driver      "kbd"
            Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
            Option      "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
            Identifier  "Videocard0"
            Driver      "intel"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
            Identifier "Screen0"
            Device     "Videocard0"
            DefaultDepth     24
            SubSection "Display"
                    Viewport   0 0
                    Depth     24
            EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "Extensions"
            Option      "Composite" "Enable"
    EndSection
    Thanks in advance for any help.
    Imran
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    If everything is working fine then there is no need to worry. Latest version of xorg uses Generic values. xorg.conf file is empty in Debian Unstable, Ubuntu 8.04 ( Its beta ) and a few more latest distros.
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    Sorry for re-open the thread, but my question goes in the same way.

    In my Fedora 6.0 xorg.conf the mouse section is also missing.
    How can I know which driver is my OS using for my mouse?.

    I have downloaded the xf86-input-mouse.1.3.0 because I would like to modify the functionallity of my mouse. I have compiled and installed the driver and it creates the files:

    /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.la
    /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so

    What need I do to use the new driver I have installed? (I suppose that including the section for this driver in xorg.conf, it's that true?).

    Thank you for your answers!

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