Where are the xorg.conf configuration settings at?

[Mol_Bolom]

I have been tinkering around with slackware based distro's mostly, and had slackware itself installed onto this old machine (1.2g cpu 256m mem). While running it, I couldn't get the computer to use glx, and a game I tried to play on it wouldn't run, but the graphics were great. However, in Xubuntu it runs smoothly, but the graphics are terrible.

Anyway, I'd like to know what ubuntu had configured that caused glx to work. Just unfortunately the xorg.conf file doesn't have any configurations in it, instead there are only labels.

[DaWoo]

/etc/X11/xorg.conf is the file location . But, what are you asking? I'm assuming you have an nvidia card. This sounds similar to one of my problems. Sorry I don't have more to offer. I've installed the nvidia driver but ended up using the default driver.

[Mol_Bolom]

Well, I know where the xorg.conf file is, but I'd like to know where the configurations that are normally in the file are.

For example, here's my xorg.conf device section on another computer running slackware...

Section "Device"

    Identifier  "VESA Framebuffer"
	BoardName   "82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device"
	Driver  "intel"
	Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection

In Xubuntu this is all I have...

Section "Device"
   identifier   "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Ok, label was the wrong word I used in my original post, but still there are only identifiers. I would like to see what exactly are the settings that are set in Serverflags, Device, Monitor, and Screen.

[coopstah13]

newer versions of xorg don't require the config file, it does most of the auto detection, you could try i810 driver on ubuntu, i'm not sure how to see what driver you are currently using

[Mol_Bolom]

O.K. I think I understand it now. There are no configurations, instead when the computer is turned on it automatically detects the hardware each time the comptuer comes on, right?

Then if that is the case, how does one find out what the configurations are?

I've tried the displayconfigure-gtk, but that was rather useless. It just changed the driver and only showed the driver and monitor, no other configurations, and I know that on some distros the i810 works better, and on others intel works on that particular system.

[D-cat]

You can copy the same Section "Device" configuration from your slackware install into the Ubuntu xorg.conf and it will over-ride auto-detect.

[reed9]

There are no configurations, instead when the computer is turned on it automatically detects the hardware each time the comptuer comes on, right?

The newer X server uses xorg input hotplugging. You are able to configure this, but not through the xorg.conf file. Arch Linux has some pretty good documentation on this.
Xorg input hotplugging - ArchWiki
Xorg - ArchWiki

You are able to turn off hotplugging and go back to the old xorg.conf file.

[Mol_Bolom]

Thanks reed9.

I'm not sure about it, and if I understand it correctly I can make a few changes and it wouldn't override the entire automated process, only the options I would change...Well, only one way to find out......