From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 17:45:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF5E10656D9 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:45:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gfritz@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACE28FC0C for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:45:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gfritz@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so6068789rvf.43 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:45:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:user-agent; bh=zvH0F4zUseBr7uvZ2jNj9e5aQe1IpEaE7PtSGnRFG9Y=; b=g7B7uDkK1DLywP/09KhQUTPKvzJma9BoVoRfCFbxAA05WceyuUDr2W3lYRu/ohlVK6 7pGf2n5IcDExIlWrh4s05/HDGqW5dLaTEYzrSf6q6n8t69IhLCF2tmgr6oL5iZdT7sl8 bgs6cP411Hnv8r+CMUwqRnBX26C2QKx6TJ+ok= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:user-agent; b=oJSQAcw96q3kNB7pGBOunLz/CZix8F1VhVNhQltzX7MoRwL4l7+J02M+6TA4omrXqC Vm12l8eX3MsGGah/OMICFgMXJSvrFFHXzuyWms3fHgFNw3YYos3/hI+dKpj+4ZkGsaCq 5a/Xisr2O/4kZc1iGWst4TqQ7mwCzVNqtMJkg= Received: by 10.141.68.12 with SMTP id v12mr2800083rvk.153.1232991937235; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from dev.null (245-12-66-208.dsl.cust.wirelessbeehive.com [208.66.12.245]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f21sm795285rvb.7.2009.01.26.09.45.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by dev.null (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3EC602FCD; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:45:35 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:45:35 -0700 From: Geoff Fritz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090126174535.GA89109@dev.null> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: Dual-head issues w/ the latest Xorg updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:45:38 -0000 Seems I've been bitten by the latest Xorg updates that trickled into ports late last week. Firstly, I stumbled with the "AllowEmptyInput" thing, as described in /usr/ports/UPDATING (20090123 entry). Fine, that was easy enough. After that, I found that the "sis" driver was broken, or at least it resulted in my card no longer working. Granted, I have a very old 4MB (or maybe 8MB) card I snagged at a thrift shop to drive my 2nd monitor. So I gave up on the sis driver, and tried to run w/ the vesa driver. No luck, either. I can't seem to get that working now. Either dual-head got tweaked with the latest X updates, or my understanding of setting up X is extremely deficient. My guess is the latter. It's very frustrating that it just worked, then stopped. Having this blank CRT in my field of vision is really tweaking me out. :) So, before I get involved in a storm of posting copies of my xorg.conf and log files, has anyone else had issues with the new Xorg stuff? Also, is there a good howto for setting up Xorg with 2 heads and 2 different cards? In the mean time, I'll be recompiling the whole chain of programs with the default make options, just to make sure my custom CPUTYPE and optimizations didn't break stuff. Thanks. -- Geoff P.S. -- If it comes down to posting full config/log files, what's the preferred method, inline or as attachments?