Where is the xorg.conf on Fedora Core 10 PPC


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I just installed Fedora Core 10 on my old Powermac G4, and a friend of mine is running Ubuntu on a very similar system. He is having issues with his xorg.conf file, and he asked me to send him a copy of mine, since I'm able to run the GUI fine.

The problem is, I looked all over /etc/X11/ and could not find xorg.conf anywhere. Where can I find this file on Fedora 10?

This is a fresh install, I've not messed around with the system yet, so everything is still default.... And I've been using Linux roughly since about 8pm CST last night.

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running as root, try the following

[root@finserver ~]# updatedb

[root@finserver ~]# locate xorg.conf

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

this is a CentOS box (x86), which should be similar to Fedora (PPC)

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I just tried that and it brought up another issue.

Sudo updatedb

It says I am no allowed to use sudo

I tried to log in as root to edit /etc/sudoers, it says "unable to authenticate user"

Does this mean I'm locked out of my own system. Or how can I get around this?

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Fedora doesn't use SUDO by default.

Try opening up a terminal

entering the command

su

Then the root password you should have created during installation

then type the other commands without the sudo they should be run as root anyway.

Not sure the newest Xorg actually has an Xorg.conf unless you specifically create one for it (Newest versions Autodetect most things so unless there's something that specifically needs to be manually set I think they now run without one, seem to recall reading it somewhere but might be wrong)

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Fedora doesn't use SUDO by default.

Try opening up a terminal

entering the command

su

Then the root password you should have created during installation

then type the other commands without the sudo they should be run as root anyway.

+1 (Y)

Sudo is more or less an Ubuntu practiced technique by default (although I can use it in Debian). "su" is used by many other distributions by default.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf is where mine is (Debian).

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Fedora doesn't use SUDO by default.

Try opening up a terminal

entering the command

su

Then the root password you should have created during installation

then type the other commands without the sudo they should be run as root anyway.

Not sure the newest Xorg actually has an Xorg.conf unless you specifically create one for it (Newest versions Autodetect most things so unless there's something that specifically needs to be manually set I think they now run without one, seem to recall reading it somewhere but might be wrong)

That answered all my questions, thank you :)

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You can setup sudo on Fedora by adding your user to /etc/sudoers.

echo 'loginname ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

Where 'loginname' is your user account.
Use 'ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' if you don't want to be prompted a password.
If you are prompted for a password with 'sudo' it is the user password, not root.

Would you like to know more?

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