From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Aug 28 05:50:42 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34359C3E93 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:50:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maillist@bsdjunk.com) Received: from fallback8.mail.ru (fallback8.mail.ru [94.100.181.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C5CD32 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maillist@bsdjunk.com) Received: from smtp46.i.mail.ru (smtp46.i.mail.ru [94.100.177.106]) by fallback8.mail.ru (mPOP.Fallback_MX) with ESMTP id 0DC1288494BC for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:44:48 +0300 (MSK) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mail.ru; s=mail2; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject; bh=D2Uc96Fws5F38/xy/2LUdN5IyNOZSFMcibjUaUVLwbo=; b=EzwP82d6ry4G752F2n1LIydl7Mid9UCGqIBNqFOq46h9AbegQwPGgYTLpoqkW/ZD13qIjA9pruXS+cSVMiH6xsy7if9/G0kn/NXXX46Etl2lzjNQVXJw7NaUgQj+7qvWhVFZthaeUPD9zytRcseD+OJuLGj0lQr9G93zTgQ4lIw=; Received: from [187.150.131.128] (port=51246 helo=[192.168.1.77]) by smtp46.i.mail.ru with esmtpa (envelope-from ) id 1ZVCSs-0003J4-Na for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:44:39 +0300 Subject: Re: generating xorg.conf does not work To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Chris Petrik Message-ID: <55DFF541.1010803@bsdjunk.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:44:33 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mras: Ok X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:50:43 -0000 On 08/27/15 23:56, doug@safeport.com wrote: > I am running 10.1 and xorg-7.7_2. When I built and installed all this > around the first of this month, the handbook still had generating > xorg.conf the "tried and true" way: Xorg -configure. This did not work > but letting xorg self configure did (and does) work. I am currently > running xfce-4.12_1. > > The handbook now says, "To generate the configuration file and start > the X system, issue this command: startx". A post to > forums.freebsd.org on 8/4/15 says, "Auto-generating xorg.conf is not > recommended any more." This by wblock@. (that you Warren??) So what > gives?? > > startx at least as run by a non-root user generates no file and starts > xorg according the that specified by /usr/local/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. > > I have installed several ports that say add this font or make some > other change to xorg.conf. And, perhaps have a problem running chrome > because I am not able to do that. So my questions are basically: > should this be posted to xorg; are there any guidelines on how to > build an xorg.conf from the various outputs from the self-generated > start; is auto generation the way to go or not; and lastly if > auto-generation is the way of the future how do you add fonts and or > change the other things one usually does? > > Thanks for any help, I sure need some :) > > _____ > Douglas Denault > http://www.safeport.com > doug@safeport.com > Voice: 301-217-9220 > Fax: 301-217-9277 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, This is a known issue and I believe it can be found here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics Xorg is smart enough to generate it's own config each time X is started so no need for a config file. In theory this is enough for average joe. Christopher Petrik