From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 17 13:40:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CCE116A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:40:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from eyre.southern.net.au (eyre.southern.net.au [202.182.64.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644D643D49 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:40:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from awaters@labyrinth.net.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eyre.southern.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BCB5D0; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:40:00 +1000 (EST) Received: from labyrinth.net.au (adsl-202-61-136-95.vic.keypoint.com.au [202.61.136.95]) by eyre.southern.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2BAA434B; Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:39:57 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 23:39:57 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_de_Paula?= From: Adrian Waters In-Reply-To: <5ef8c2f00407140621701c3b81@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 with Kapersky AntiVirus cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with xorgcfg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:40:12 -0000 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 > 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.