Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:28:23 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOLVED: Re: All of a sudden, problems with X Message-ID: <20140722072823.5c6eeb4c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140722052137.3FF3A12C10D0@mail.parts-unknown.org> References: <20140722024643.GA29536@munich.parts-unknown.org> <20140722051423.0cf369b9.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140722040440.GA16353@munich.parts-unknown.org> <20140722061900.008b35db.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140722052137.3FF3A12C10D0@mail.parts-unknown.org>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:21:36 -0700, David Benfell wrote: > Polytropon writes: > > > > The easiest thing now would be to remove X and > > > > a) install it _and_ its dependencies from ports, > > ports tree updated of course > > I think this is what I did. The command I used was: > > portmaster -w -r xorg-server > > The problem reported here now seems to be solved. I have a mouse again. After a ports tree update, this would be the clean solution. All dependencies (like xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse) will then be "in sync" again with the other X components. > I > haven't tried Xorg -configure, but I've got fluxbox working from startx > again. If your X works without a xorg.conf, you can omit this step. > And I haven't tried gdm to see if all this latest has fixed whatever > was wrong there. You could try xdm as a graphical login manager (I use it myself on my home desktop - it's fast and free of bloat). > It does seem there are some gotchas with this latest version of Xorg. One > is that it attempts to respond to my mismatched dual-head setup. It didn't > get screen dimensions right at all and fell back to an ugly common > denominator. It happens the big beautiful screen is destined for a server > that should be arriving in a couple days anyway, so I'm just disconnecting > it a bit early. The small notebook screen will suffice until then. For settings like dual-screen, having a _partial_ xorg.conf might be a usable solution, i. e., you only define those parts like screen location and dimensions as needed, and have X and HAL recognize automatically all the other parts for the setup. I'm going with a HAL-less X myself at home, with xorg.conf and two 21" CRTs so old that no autodetection magic will ever work, so "the old way" is still possible if technically required. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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