F15, fglrx: xorg.conf is reset (overwritten) at boot (fine before shutdown)

[HawkBoy]

Hi all,

I've installed the proprietary radeon drivers on fedora 15 and am haveing an issue: my xorg.conf is reset to a crappy config after each reboot.

I _can_ use amdcccle, I _can_ set things up perfectly, and everything is fine as long as I don't reboot (loging out and in is fine too).

Once I reboot, my xorg.conf changes from having:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "amdcccle-Screen[1]-0" 0 0
EndSection

to
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection


and I get stuck with my dual-screen in clone mode.

Who the hell is screwing with my xorg? This is driving me nuts!

Thanks in advance.

[glennzo]

Check out the chattr command

PHP Code:

man chattr 


You can set the immutable flag on the file if you think it may be what you need to do.

PHP Code:

chattr -i /etc/X11/xorg.conf 


Not so sure that this is the best way to handle the issue but it may get you by for the time being.

[HawkBoy]

Thanks for your reply glennzo. I didn't know that was possible.

But that can't be the right solution. I mean, this has to be some sort of start-up job that resets the graphic settings. I just don't know which one it is (it's especially difficult because I don't know how to deal with systemd yet).

Does anyone know? I can't be the only person hitting this issue.

[JohnVV]

are you using the ati xorg tool as a normal user

if so run it as root .

[HawkBoy]

Thanks for the reply.

What xorg tool? I'm using amdcccle. And yes, I run as root.

[bikemancdma]

I was having same issue, tried the chattr command mentioned above as well as "chmod 444 xorg.conf",
neither one worked.

Using the kde utility for screen size and orientation was not fruitful either.
As root used "amdcccle" to get xorg.conf as desired, then did a little RTFM
at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_..._configuration.

File added in xorg.conf.d "00-system-serverlayout.conf", contents:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "amdcccle-Screen[1]-0" 0 0
EndSection

After that would have the desktop across two screens after reboot.

FYI, section that boot would overwrite to:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection