Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:30:55 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701172256330.1046@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <45c5ea44-e0b4-2698-da8e-707c507eb086@holgerdanske.com> References: <18a5de5c-bc3a-c2e8-32c1-ea0a12d446ac@holgerdanske.com> <20170116230336.2cc22d94@riseup.net> <45c5ea44-e0b4-2698-da8e-707c507eb086@holgerdanske.com>
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, David Christensen wrote: > On 01/16/17 20:05, Sergei Akhmatdinov wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > >> On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:16:59 -0800 >> David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: >>> [snip] >> >> First of all, using your own Xorg.conf is very deprecated, I suggest you >> allow X to configure itself, i.e., remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > > dpchrist@freebsd:/usr/home/dpchrist $ l /etc/X11/ > ./ ../ > > >> and/or /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf files and simply run startx. > > I generated xorg.conf.new per the manual section 5.4.8: > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html The Quick Start section at the very top shows the right way to do this. That is, do not generate an xorg.conf at all. Way down in the Manual Configuration section, it says: In some cases, Xorg autoconfiguration does not work with particular hardware, or a different configuration is desired. For these cases, a custom configuration file can be created. This is clearly not emphatic enough. It should say: DO NOT GENERATE AN XORG.CONF FILE UNLESS ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED! I do not know but suspect the font section is obsolete. However, I have not investigated that. >> Do you have both hald and dbus running? Only dbus is required for xfce. Although the packages might require hal, don't know.
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