From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 02:32:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5D11DC5 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54F06859 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sBH2WADb020565 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:32:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) with ESMTP id sBH2W9uN020562; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:32:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:32:09 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: Xorg -configure ... Segmentation fault at address 0x0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <47844.1418695368@server1.tristatelogic.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:32:10 -0700 (MST) Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" , "Ronald F. Guilmette" X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:32:12 -0000 On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette > wrote: > >> >> >> I'm trying to bring up a new wokrstation. I've just successfully >> installed 10.1-RELEASE and I'm now just trying to get X properly >> configured. So far it isn't going at all well. >> >> Logs are attached below. The system, in question contains AMD A4-6300 >> APU. I found this page which says, at the very bottom, that this is a >> known problem: >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics >> >> Is there an ETA for a fix? >> >> Not that I have heard, but i may have missed something. > > To ask a really dumb question, why are you doing "Xorg -configure"? One > reason that there has been a lot of breakage in Xorg -configure is that it > is so little used and less often needed. Unfortunately, the Handbook still recommends it. I added a Quick Start section that shows using it without generating a config file, but now I see the HTML version being served by FreeBSD.org is from September. Really, the whole Xorg chapter needs a rewrite. I have loose outlines for that, but it's a big job and there have been numerous other things that have popped up recently.