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([122.161.2.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm8330749yxb.61.2010.01.06.10.26.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:26:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B44D5EE.7090202@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:56:54 +0530 From: Manish Jain User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rsmith@xs4all.nl, Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset 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: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:26:30 -0000 Hello Warren/Polytropon, Thanks a lot for the information. As Polytropon stated, xorg.conf is generally not needed nowadays. So I just did a startx and things worked out fine. However, this behaviour is more Windowish than Unixish. I would like to remember the -configure option for my own sake. Thanks again to you and Polytropon. Manish Jain invalid.pointer@gmail.com Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, manish jain wrote: > >> I just installed FreeBSD-8.0-i386 on my office system. I can't find >> anything >> like the xf86cfg/xf86config tools for configuring X that used to come >> with >> FreeBSD earlier. The only utility I could find is xorg-edit, but this is >> nowhere as user-friendly as the earlier tools. > > Xorg -configure will create a very basic xorg.conf. Usually I just > copy the Device section out of that and into one of my own configs > where all the excess has been removed. > >> Can somebody please send me a sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express >> chipset (384 MB video RAM) and a PNP Dell LCD monitor which is >> happiest @ (1440X900 resolution/ 32-bit colour / 60 Hz refresh) in >> Windows ? The keyboard and mouse are standard USB. > > First, check the Handbook X11 configuration section to see what it > says about hal and dbus. It describes both using them and running > without. > >> I assume the default file location remains unchanged : >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > That works, yes. > > Here's a slightly-modified copy of the xorg.conf from my netbook, > which uses hal and dbus. You'll probably need to change the BusID to > match your system. > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "AA1 Manually Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > EndSection > > Section "Files" > ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" > FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" > FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" > FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF" > FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" > FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" > FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/" > EndSection > > Section "DRI" > Mode 0660 > EndSection > > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", > ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "NoAccel" # [] > #Option "SWcursor" # [] > #Option "ColorKey" # > #Option "CacheLines" # > #Option "Dac6Bit" # [] > #Option "DRI" # [] > #Option "NoDDC" # [] > #Option "ShowCache" # [] > #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # > #Option "PageFlip" # [] > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "intel" > VendorName "Intel Corporation" > BoardName "Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller" > BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > Option "Monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0" > Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,VGA" > Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > SubSection "Display" > Virtual 1440 900 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA >