Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:18:13 +0200 From: "lokadamus@gmx.de" <lokadamus@gmx.de> To: doug@safeport.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: generating xorg.conf does not work Message-ID: <55E0A5E5.1040803@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1508280029090.72286@bucksport.safeport.com>
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On 08/28/15 06:56, doug@safeport.com wrote: ... > around the first of this month, the handbook still had generating > xorg.conf the "tried and true" way: Xorg -configure. This did not work > but letting xorg self configure did (and does) work. I am currently > running xfce-4.12_1. > I have installed several ports that say add this font or make some other > change to xorg.conf. And, perhaps have a problem running chrome because > I am not able to do that. So my questions are basically: should this be > posted to xorg; are there any guidelines on how to build an xorg.conf > from the various outputs from the self-generated start; is auto > generation the way to go or not; and lastly if auto-generation is the > way of the future how do you add fonts and or change the other things > one usually does? I'm a little bit confused. Generated your xorg.conf and look at your /var/log/Xorg.log to see, what is wrong. What error message are in Xorg.log? Else you can configure it and look what is going wrong. Greetingshome | help
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