Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:32:09 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Subject: Re: Xorg -configure ... Segmentation fault at address 0x0 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412161927320.16697@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1toL=k=uoWodDcwXC2hzW0crH_U6zed-QTPXPybw%2BbUGg@mail.gmail.com> References: <47844.1418695368@server1.tristatelogic.com> <CAN6yY1toL=k=uoWodDcwXC2hzW0crH_U6zed-QTPXPybw%2BbUGg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> I'm trying to bring up a new wokrstation. I've just successfully >> installed 10.1-RELEASE and I'm now just trying to get X properly >> configured. So far it isn't going at all well. >> >> Logs are attached below. The system, in question contains AMD A4-6300 >> APU. I found this page which says, at the very bottom, that this is a >> known problem: >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics >> >> Is there an ETA for a fix? >> >> Not that I have heard, but i may have missed something. > > To ask a really dumb question, why are you doing "Xorg -configure"? One > reason that there has been a lot of breakage in Xorg -configure is that it > is so little used and less often needed. Unfortunately, the Handbook still recommends it. I added a Quick Start section that shows using it without generating a config file, but now I see the HTML version being served by FreeBSD.org is from September. Really, the whole Xorg chapter needs a rewrite. I have loose outlines for that, but it's a big job and there have been numerous other things that have popped up recently.
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