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getconfig - get configuration information for the Xorg server
getconfig
[option ...]
getconfig is a programatic interface that is used
by the Xorg server to get configuration information about video hardware
when operating without an xorg.conf file.
This implementation of getconfig
is written in perl. It processes a prioritized and ordered list of rules
supplied internally and from meta-configuration files. The rules are in
the form of perl expressions. getconfig writes to standard output the xorg.conf-style
configuration data specified by the last highest priority rule that evaluates
to true. Information about the format of the meta-configuration files can
be found in the getconfig(5x)
manual page.
- -I search-path
- Specify the
search path to use for meta-config files. search-path is a comma-separated
list of directories to search. Each directory in the search path is searched
for files with a .cfg suffix. Each such file is opened and checked for a
valid signature string. Rules are read from files with a valid signature
string and appended to the list of rules to evaluate. If no search path
is specified, only the internally supplied configuration rules will be
used.
- -D
- Enable debugging output.
- -V
- Print out the version information and
exit.
- -X
- Xorg-version Specify the Xorg version in numeric (integer) form.
- -b
subsys-id
- Specify the PCI subsystem ID of the video device.
- -c class
- Specify
the PCI class of the video device.
- -d device-id
- Specify the PCI devide ID
of the video device.
- -r revision
- Specify the PCI revision of the video device.
- -s subsysvendor-id
- Specify the PCI subsystem vendor ID of the video device.
- -v vendor-id
- Specify the PCI vendor ID of the video device.
.cfg files
located in the search path. The search path typically specified by the
Xorg server is:
/etc/X11
/usr/X11R6/etc/X11
<modulepath>
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig
where <modulepath> is the Xorg server's module search path.
getconfig(5x)
,
Xorg(1x)
, xorg.conf(5x)
.
The Xorg automatic configuration support
and the getconfig interface was written by David H. Dawes, with the support
of X-Oz Technologies for XFree86.
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