From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Aug 23 16:19:53 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865C63C1691 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:19:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.131]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BZL7X22F2z3YtQ for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:19:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([94.223.163.154]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue012 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1N7xml-1keLnV3hUR-014yZj; Sun, 23 Aug 2020 18:19:47 +0200 Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 18:19:46 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Manish Jain Cc: Antonio Olivares , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Reset xorg using lumina desktop Message-Id: <20200823181946.bfebe80c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20200823102746.00ccd768.freebsd@edvax.de> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:k62MvNovNq35wzyhofJ/vUN752BSN046HPt7SkBTyLYUr0OjqRg 4XdzNjm7VSJnEkdRCO2VY4pNNDgwpyAF02x/SPB69kEb9h5MXYRm3XywPMZv9pYBYCQLDTQ jmtQ91KdGk7y0p7iTQsjNyqJ9rI+bGgZU2ixDONt9ff7ZINeDV1mg0+pqST/vEuOJQmHtaB XJTMQV4j0ooxPsbw4lRdA== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:LKKLEsw4yJI=:jwaNZFDAolpPixZ5jEd1+f D8KAjAQT+yNlYj47CqaYIiOoqk0OKwE4UCpgmMG4S7oA7P1jOY7gOnL6q6AMnERenbaKl1jpk bo7JSXM7nxx2o95XKczWcWHNF5XOWKTTgsq+HQxM97GZLju2yxnMx/9EIOdXeEzhkJC8N/VVO xoTdi5arm7H70kQtNc59q91YAKHvdMi+ERQ1AP/9QLDN31RQkJaaSHkOHHHs1AfbaA1/S3A8g PrJi/Mps7kVJwJJ2+0dLXhavO6E9F9JfQsTH5Sx2EA+lHmATcE1nK6Td3/lRjeIQO60HJHqeC DociEw8Ufd7JAAvDe+jvNYqt81ImdkF8CmcAHfUiUZHVNE9h93BYGcUfu8ftqUtbdMY25DbZt 6rdv1TVUKZVzNhBlOI7nkfvmL1h3svbPlI2MjGaKEfE6xLeHrmeh7eUbCKFnjry9acqSstOFA XThEv+OIfM/1GhEIzQi7nmXJ5cXd+YE2fm6VhJFmOrFQRFMMdqY7rrGXE8n7LbncFL7w9ffp9 icpickJOXbT4Ib63hZR0wkdczRYyqep0Zzdsgetxb/rTpTGdEYN0QZn5n2n7xkoFRUdyYdH2T gP3GQ2dA7lPTMreSRVsS99wN76PdmfEOG1vBG7BkcjzID1CrLLfaW5YllLAZdqY4tMfjjgFMb P2PQcUzRhM7QnzDNW2e5XhT4fA1f7o1nawK6hfbkSRIiAvDMTAr1cEsqj/x1qPPI9GmPItD6k F01HG7d3JYbebl7FxUfTucTny/o/Eh7uaFD62E0MoJGb1Lu4dGMi8NjPJwC8xpYP+FufUfXvZ UyDKpYhHJOE1FirDFuI9gcnFiztla+kdXjC1shMMGPpC1hwJYoyzqXdtNbYlEPhkvQa9sdqHc mK9n1vqeRZyx1QCRrUig== X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BZL7X22F2z3YtQ X-Spamd-Bar: ++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@edvax.de has no SPF policy when checking 212.227.126.131) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@edvax.de X-Spamd-Result: default: False [2.99 / 15.00]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[hotmail.com]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[94.223.163.154:received]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.59)[0.590]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[212.227.126.131:from]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[212.227.126.131:from]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[gmail.com,freebsd.org]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:19:53 -0000 On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 19:09:05 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > > On 2020-08-23 13:57, Polytropon wrote: > > Even though this is technically correct, it usually is no longer > > needed. X's auto-magic will do everything on its own, without > > a configuration file. > > Poly, > > I might be mistaken, but X does not always configure itself. > Particularly in case you have an NVidia card, you specifically need to > run nvidia-xconfig to get a good xorg configuration. I have never done that - per definition, it _should_ always work with autodetection magic (and then load the "nvidia" driver). However, specific settings seem to work better when you have an autogenerated xorg.conf file, and you can apply custom alterations to that file if you need. The idea of partial configuration files is that those will override only given aspects of the autodetected configuration (like forcing a specific screen size that deviates from what the autodetection thinks is right). Again, nvidia might be such a case that's a little different from everything else. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...