Bug 502300 - xorg.conf gets reset on every boot
Summary: xorg.conf gets reset on every boot
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: distribution
Version: 11
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-23 10:27 UTC by Sneaky Carpet
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:18 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-06-25 13:13:53 UTC
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Description Sneaky Carpet 2009-05-23 10:27:01 UTC
Description of problem:
My screen isn't properly detected when using a VGA cable instead of DVI (only have a VGA cable that's long enough for my setup), and manually setting the parameters in xorg.conf (like I've always done) is impossible because they're reset on every boot.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:
Very, at least on my setup

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make changes to xorg.conf
2. Reboot
3. Discover that the changes don't stick
  
Actual results:
Changes don't stick

Expected results:
Changes made to xorg.conf stick, allowing me to set the correct resolution.

Additional info:
Using Fedora 11 preview with KDE

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2009-05-26 16:34:02 UTC
Are you using a live image?

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 16:26:07 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 Deepak Kumar 2009-06-24 20:50:14 UTC
I ran into a similar problem on FC 11 with gnome. Later I realized that the issue was because I had installed nvidia driver from rpmfusion. From the installation there was a script '/etc/init.d/nvidia' which changes xorg.conf on reboot. Perhaps this should not be a fedora bug?

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2009-06-25 13:13:53 UTC
Yeah, I've not seen any other reports of this, and I can't reproduce it.


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