getconfig(1)							 getconfig(1)



NAME
       getconfig - get configuration information for the Xorg server

SYNOPSIS
       getconfig [option ...]

DESCRIPTION
       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 expres-
       sions.  getconfig writes to standard output the	xorg.conf-style	 con-
       figuration data specified by the last highest priority rule that eval-
       uates to true.  Information about the format of the meta-configuration
       files can be found in the getconfig(5x) manual page.

OPTIONS
       -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 sig-
	       nature  string.	Rules are read from files with a valid signa-
	       ture string and appended to the list of rules to evaluate.  If
	       no search path is specified, only the internally supplied con-
	       figuration 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.

FILES
       .cfg  files  located  in	 the  search path.  The search path typically
       specified by the Xorg server is:

	   /etc/X11
	   /usr/X11R6/etc/X11
	   
	   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/getconfig

       where  is the Xorg server's module search path.


SEE ALSO
       getconfig(5x), Xorg(1x), xorg.conf(5x).


AUTHORS
       The Xorg automatic configuration support and the	 getconfig  interface
       was  written  by David H. Dawes, with the support of X-Oz Technologies
       for XFree86.



X.Org				Version 6.8.2			 getconfig(1)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. Xorg
2. perl
3. last
4. file