I installed my drivers for my Nvidia graphics card, and when I went to config using the command: sudo nvidia-xconfig I got the message:

WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Now when I type in the command I get the message:

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

What the hell is going on?

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Well, everything is perfectly ok: In the first run no xorg.conf was present, so xconfig reported so:

WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.

It created a xorg.conf still:

New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf

In the second run the xorg.conf was already present:

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".

So it has been backed up:

Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'

and a new one has been created in its place:

New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

Of course, if you didn't change the xorg.conf between the two runs, both the backed up and the new version are identical.

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