From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Aug 28 18:18:25 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD8B9C52A0 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:18:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lokadamus@gmx.de) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DE7AA39 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:18:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lokadamus@gmx.de) Received: from [192.168.0.143] ([95.91.227.48]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LyVIk-1Ybkpd2ksw-015r4u; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:18:15 +0200 Subject: Re: generating xorg.conf does not work To: doug@safeport.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: From: "lokadamus@gmx.de" Message-ID: <55E0A5E5.1040803@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:18:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:z+MgiJG5P4XhNA/h0TwLCNiHtET+9qpTpHJOLhEzrKm9DR5ldfl 961gpCR/JL+yPM9ghYo0ADbmurXvLXufQvlNmeNjXn3EeAluA0oN7Ei1ZB3el8jN99Na+X6 1Y0AGEu4samlZ40FNDn+POXdkutSyKbIvjAiZBpESmkj/eeSXfc4K161R1D9BO4023+pC89 Ue8/6zJ9yAyGdKjYmk0yw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:o0biqIzJ2SQ=:zXN/hEFF//+k20E0pp1BS4 Se7y2bw208andC6TgYk0i3J/pmStdVA5F7auZABAvW6NKLiHnXOqvi2UupFoEN9MDYwxTTpcB 05LKka3zs4+RNHf9Zeh3KWooa6BKO/26SshiW3wZLwjHcy2oWqavS+5yZimZ4YeHQ3MEKJ0Z0 BldKfhofp6rSMMS7z6yGWx10L4UUA6h/lEga6udtK1pIvx1dDWOXl0KIn50BresjyOG4vev2t y8xhGaTioTCISKC50Sd5AabEXfEP87u+nwUhwrAmqxOCrKNzRmNFKNvoyKrj82NOPZU535W9D tHqMu9ZMTNnsXRABMTJhlj5Di1jqFhvD8bVhmV5gevNKr3Nv1wZWP6w/wiS4A3vTiDl8arRzW muH417y9rGIjaBBoR2OeqNx7JD5sBJXqhPB/gcaD/USl2SKT4aXlXETE4QXUrxD6yyCNnxD+f QCkkhYdVa2hadDZJIJICCXfu8QF8ihiMK0WWyD65deDes0rzyiDaF5fHvAgCojJjW/Vvj9JSd KKQ22FKQLxrh0Y06sR9ysYEDGb1VlI2uzMFtFQvk976FRNjUZpyRvYs0hBY1WBeCjrKZN3Gos e1O7Vck5JErVdXdhgVpVrYXty7JBwML0nZsCcZ+XcvKxROGV1hkFH6zD5DNZ7+7tVpfAVt/Sa XDr9hn5Ucto+fRO5GmqjUNa+cbAvqpcXUGM/VgXPcJewANYoTskFstSwoYnW6jDaMEKmhPdJt 1azTQKd63UnBCp0VfouihjbfbgvuHSenPxEp6KXf1iUoaaLuHHyfxQqje2M= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:18:25 -0000 On 08/28/15 06:56, doug@safeport.com wrote: ... > around the first of this month, the handbook still had generating > xorg.conf the "tried and true" way: Xorg -configure. This did not work > but letting xorg self configure did (and does) work. I am currently > running xfce-4.12_1. > I have installed several ports that say add this font or make some other > change to xorg.conf. And, perhaps have a problem running chrome because > I am not able to do that. So my questions are basically: should this be > posted to xorg; are there any guidelines on how to build an xorg.conf > from the various outputs from the self-generated start; is auto > generation the way to go or not; and lastly if auto-generation is the > way of the future how do you add fonts and or change the other things > one usually does? I'm a little bit confused. Generated your xorg.conf and look at your /var/log/Xorg.log to see, what is wrong. What error message are in Xorg.log? Else you can configure it and look what is going wrong. Greetings