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getconfig - get configuration
information for the XFree86 server
getconfig [option ...]
getconfig
is a programmatic interface that is used by the XFree86 server to get configuration
information about video hardware when operating without an XF86Config 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 XF86Config-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(5)
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 XFree86-version
- Specify the XFree86
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 device 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.
- -S sbus-path
- Specify the SBUS path of the video device.
.cfg
files located in the search path. The search path typically specified by
the XFree86 server is:
/etc/X11
/usr/X11R6/etc/X11
<modulepath>
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig
where <modulepath> is the XFree86 server's module search path.
getconfig(5)
,
XFree86(1)
, XF86Config(5)
.
The XFree86 automatic configuration support
and the getconfig interface was written by David H. Dawes, with the support
of X-Oz Technologies.
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