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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: "Marat N.Afanasyev" <amarat@li.ru>
Subject: Re: copy Linux/OpenBSD's Xorg settings?
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On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:

> M Barrassed wrote:
>> I've been using FreeBSD for over 12 years, but having a hard time getting 
>> Xorg working on a Lenovo W520 Thinkpad.
>> 
>> Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and OpenBSD all install their Xorg configs 
>> automatically on this laptop, working great.  But no such luck with 
>> FreeBSD.
>> 
>> Doing these steps exactly:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
>> 
>> But when I do the `Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro` step, neither 
>> keyboard nor mouse/touchpad are recognized, and the resolutions settings 
>> look way off.
>> 
>> MY QUESTION:
>> 
>> How can I copy the Xorg settings from my OpenBSD or Linux installation into 
>> my FreeBSD 10 installation?
>> 
>> The others don't seem to have an obvious xorg.conf file anywhere, so I'm 
>> stumped for where else to look.
>> 
>> Thank you and sorry for the dumb question.
>> 
>> 
> try to add
>
> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
>
> to ServerFlags in your xorg.conf.new. probably yuo've hald misconfigured or 
> not running

No, please do not use that option any more:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html