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I'm trying to configure my video driver, but some of the languages used are unfamiliar to me, especially comments. I know that everything behind the line is ignored, but if I want to enable it, should I skip one line and add the whole line down?:

#Option "NoAccel" # []

Option "NoAccel"

Here's what it looks like after I've created a new xorg.conf.new after running xorg -configure in console mode, then I moved the new xorg file into /etc/x11, accidentally named it x11, so I changed the name and then moved it to /etc/x11/.

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Section "Device"

### Available Driver options are:-

### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False",

### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz"

### [arg]: arg optional

#Option "NoAccel" # []

Option "NoAccel"

#Option "SWcursor" # []

Option "Swcursor"

#Option "Dac6Bit" # []

#Option "Dac8Bit" # []

#Option "BusType" # []

#Option "CPPIOMode" # []

#Option "CPusecTimeout" #

#Option "AGPMode" #

#Option "AGPFastWrite" # []

#Option "AGPSize" #

#Option "GARTSize" #

#Option "RingSize" #

#Option "BufferSize" #

#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # []

#Option "EnablePageFlip" # []

#Option "NoBackBuffer" # []

#Option "DMAForXv" # []

#Option "FBTexPercent" #

#Option "DepthBits" #

#Option "PCIAPERSize" #

#Option "AccelDFS" # []

#Option "IgnoreEDID" # []

#Option "CustomEDID" # []

#Option "DisplayPriority" # []

#Option "PanelSize" # []

#Option "ForceMinDotClock" #

#Option "ColorTiling" # []

#Option "VideoKey" #

#Option "RageTheatreCrystal" #

#Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" #

#Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" #

#Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" #

#Option "TunerType" #

#Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" #

#Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" #

#Option "ScalerWidth" #

#Option "RenderAccel" # []

#Option "SubPixelOrder" # []

#Option "ClockGating" # []

#Option "VGAAccess" # []

#Option "ReverseDDC" # []

#Option "LVDSProbePLL" # []

#Option "AccelMethod" #

#Option "DRI" # []

#Option "ConnectorTable" #

#Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # []

#Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # []

#Option "TVDACLoadDetect" # []

#Option "ForceTVOut" # []

#Option "TVStandard" #

#Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # []

#Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # []

#Option "Int10" # []

#Option "EXAVSync" # []

#Option "ATOMTVOut" # []

#Option "R4xxATOM" # []

#Option "ForceLowPowerMode" # []

#Option "DynamicPM" # []

#Option "NewPLL" # []

#Option "ZaphodHeads" #

Identifier "Card0"

Driver "radeon"

VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"

BoardName "M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]"

BusID "PCI:1:5:0"

EndSection

How should I go no enabling or changing some variables?

2012-10-26 04:26:20
To enable a currently disabled entry, just remove the leading hash mark so it is no longer a comment. To alter the value of an entry, put the new value in quotes after the option. Also, the X in /etc/X11 should be capitalized, not lowercase. For full details of the xorg.conf file, see here . NOTE: This is for version 7.7. If you are using a prior version, they still have the documentation going back to version 6.0 on the site.