Subject: Re: Problems building 2.4.10-ac11? Am I missing a ppc specific patches
From: Bill Fink (billfink@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 22:03:56 MDT
On Sun Oct 14 2001, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> - how can I turn off the automatic running of Xautoconfig on boot of that
> kernel. I just lost the last four hours of tweaks to support dual
> monitors and radeon in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Arrgghh!
Hi Kevin,
First check if Xautoconfig is enabled in any run levels with
"chkconfig --list Xautoconfig". If it's on at all, you can turn
it off in all run levels with:
chkconfig --level 0123456 Xautoconfig off
Second, I noticed the following code in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/Xautoconfig4 ]; then
OFFB=`cat /proc/fb |grep -i 'offb'`
if [ ! -z "$OFFB" ]; then
action "Configuring X11: " /usr/X11R6/bin/Xautoconfig4
fi
fi
So if /proc/fb contains the string "offb", Xautoconfig4 will be
run during booting.
I personally find this extremely vile. I don't think Xautoconfig
should ever be run automatically at boot time. I always keep a
backup copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 just in case the system does
something stupid like this.
-Bill
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