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Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 11:55:03 -0500
From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>
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Subject: Re: Xorg problems
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On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 11:33:38AM -0500, scrat wrote:
> Ss root entered the following:
> /bin/sh
> Xorg -configure > xorg.log 2>&1
> 
Hand-configuring xorg has been deprecated; see section 6.4 of the
Handbook.  I would start by deleting the generated xorg.confs
and trying startx without a config file.