Bug#689182: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia: /etc/X11/XF86Config needs to be /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Kees de Jong]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de>
wrote:
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> On 2012-09-29 22:42, Kees de Jong wrote:
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config needs to be /etc/X11/xorg.conf otherwise no X can be
> > started. I solved this by making a symlink: # ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> And where did you get XF86Config from? It's a few years since I last
> heard about XFree86. The nvidia-graphics-drivers packages neither ship
> nor generate such a file (and no xorg.conf either).
>
>
> Andreas

Hi Andreas,


It was just there, I'm not sure if I might've generated it with: #
nvidia-xconfig --no-logo
Otherwise the problem is with nvidia-xconfig. But I can ensure you
that my system generated that file and I didn't make it manually.
Without the xorg.conf file there is no X server.