That's odd, Jason and I are in the same parallel universe :-)
If you haven't set the environment variable XORGCONFIG and you haven't
specified a config file on the command line, then according to 'man
xorg.conf', /etc/X11/xorg.conf should be found before /etc/xorg.conf.
Finally someone else who has/had the same problem. I always seem to find
the corner cases and when I report them noone can replicate them.
I tried root and a non-root user and when a xorg.conf was in /root or $HOME
it was used instead of the xorg.conf in /etc/X11. I have an updated as of
Sept 9th rawhide install. There is no XORGCONFIG environment varible. I
start x using startx. I would be happy to help in tracking this issue down
if anyone is interested in fixing it.
Thanks,
Jason