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Date:      Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:39:57 +1000
From:      Adrian Waters <awaters@labyrinth.net.au>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_de_Paula?= <espinafre@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with xorgcfg
Message-ID:  <CAFD5AC2-D7F6-11D8-A3BA-000393BF404C@labyrinth.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <5ef8c2f00407140621701c3b81@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at 11:21  PM, Jos=E9 de Paula wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:14:16 +1000, Adrian Waters
> <awaters@labyrinth.net.au> wrote:
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I've just upgraded from XFree86 to Xorg (fresh install of 5.2.1R-p9),
>> and it seems to be working okay, except when I try to run xorgcfg in
>> order to tweak the monitor it fails with "Can't create rules
>> structure".  It doesn't tell me what, where, or why, and I don't seem
>> to be able to find anything about it in my searching.  "xorgcfg
>> -textmode" works, but as I'm trying to run xorgcfg in order to tweak=20=

>> my
>> monitor Modelines I'm wondering if anyone can give me some advice for
>> fixing this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adrian.
>
> To tweak modelines, did you try xvidtune? It is handy to do that, and
> can apply your changes as you make them; when you are satisfied with
> the results, just copy the modeline it gives you and paste in your
> xorg.conf.
>

Hello, and sorry for the late reply.

I've done as suggested and used xvidtune. I remembered it not long=20
after I posted, and it's got my ModeLines all up and running the way I=20=

like them.  I'm still wondering what happened to break xorgcfg, and=20
what else might have broken as xorgcfg worked fine on another system=20
that had Xorg-from-scratch rather than Xorg-from-XFree86, but all seems=20=

okay for now.

Thanks for your help,

Adrian.



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