Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:24:46 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: "lokadamus@gmx.de" <lokadamus@gmx.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: generating xorg.conf does not work Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1508311807570.72286@bucksport.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508281631580.74312@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1508280029090.72286@bucksport.safeport.com> <55E0A5E5.1040803@gmx.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1508281432180.72286@bucksport.safeport.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508281631580.74312@wonkity.com>
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, doug@safeport.com wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I should have taken the questions one at a time. My highest priority
>> question is that the handbook is in error on how to generate xorg.conf.
>> startx is just not correct.
>
> I don't understand what you are saying there.
This part got cut from my first post. The handbook says:
To generate the configuration file and start the X system, issue
this command:
% startx
This is clearly wrong. 5.4 also says autoconfiguration is the preferred method.
I found a post to forums.freebsd.org on 8/4/15 from wblock@ saying:
"Auto-generating xorg.conf is not recommended any more."
Hence my confusion. The next part I understand and will try. But it seems to me
that Xorg -configure, if it is there, should work. I was asking should this be
reported as a bug (I could find nothing) or is there another way just not
documented yet?
>> The next issue (Xorg -confgure), I only noted in passing. My question here
>> is this a FreeBSD issue or should it be PR'd to Xorg. For starters 'Xorg
>> -configure' selected the vesa driver, autoconfiguration picked the ATI
>> Radeon driver. The vesa driver could not negociate a setting. Note even if
>> it did the screen resolution would be 1026x760 or whatever the current
>> one-size fits all resolution is. This is clearly an error in the Xorg
>> command. There may have been other errors in the generated xorg.conf file,
>> but the first one was the vesa driver could not get something out of the
>> BIOS it liked. Earlier versions of Xorg this all worked albeit with the
>> vesa driver.
>
> Back up for a second. Exactly what video hardware do you have? If you have
> onboard Intel video along with an add-on Radeon card, it would probably be
> best to disable the Intel video in the BIOS.
If this not a depreciated method, I can report it and/or provide all the data.
That was not really my question as clearly the radeon driver works. Again I was
going for, "is this just a documentation error"?
> Otherwise, try this for xorg.conf. Do not add this to an existing file, this
> is the *entire* file:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "radeon"
> EndSection
I assume I can then also add the font commands as needed. I could find no
documentation in the FreeBSD wiki or on Xorg that indicated X would just piece
all this together. I assume this would now go in /usr/local/etc/X11.
Thanks
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Douglas Denault
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