Changing color depth in Ubuntu 9.10

edwardp-KK0ffGbhmjU at public.gmane.org edwardp-KK0ffGbhmjU at public.gmane.org
Sun Dec 6 15:40:54 EST 2009


John Abreau wrote:
>> I tried "sudo find xorg.conf" and it indicated the file was not found,
>>      
> Is that literally the command you used?
>
> The syntax for find(1) is
>
>      find where-to-search [ patterns ]
>
> So the command
>
>      find xorg.conf
>
> says to start at "xorg.conf" in the current directory, and since there
> were no patterns given to narrow down the search, it will list all
> files and folders found beneath it.  If there is no file or directory
> named "xorg.conf" in the current directory, then it will complain
> that there's No such file or directory.
>
> To search the entire system for a file named xorg.conf, the command
> would be
>
>      find / -name xorg.conf
>
> with "sudo" prepended so it won't get permission errors, of course.
> And find(1) will traverse the entire filesystem for this, so it will
> take a long time.
>    

I tried both "find xorg.conf" and "find ~/ name xorg.conf" with sudo, 
file not found.

I will have to create one from scratch.






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