On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:30 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >> The big change here today, other than the updates, was to rename > >> xorg.conf to xorg.conf.old and reboot to try out lett hald set up the > >> video stuff. I'm suspecting that may be the culprit? > >> > >> - Mark > >> > > > > I don't even seem to have an xorg.conf.old or even an xorg.conf: > > > > camille X11 # ls > > Sessions app-defaults dm lbxproxy proxymngr startDM.sh wmconfig > > xinit xloadimagerc xserver > > X chooser.sh gdm mwm rstart twm xdm > > xkb xorg.conf.example xsm > > > > Yet somehow, X is running. Any ideas on this one? > > > > Yes, that's exactly the same setup I had when I had the segfault. > Under the old xorg-x11 you had an xorg.conf file which set everything > up specifically as you wanted it. The new xorg-x11 is trying to change > that, but only defaults to the new way if: > > 1) You turn on hald > 2) You have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" in /etc/make.conf when you build the > new xorg-x11 > 3) You remove or rename your old xorg.conf to some other name. > > When there is no xorg.conf file apparently the new version attempts to > use hald to determine your hardware and set things up automatically. > It works, or did for me, in the sense that X comes up and I can see > Gnome. However in that mode mythfrontend was segfaulting. I then took > my copied xorg.conf.old file and renamed it back to xorg.conf, > restarted X and mythfrontend didn't segfault anymore. > > You should take a look at /var/log/Xorg.o.log file carefully. > Somewhere in that file there is a sort of picture of how the new > xorg.conf file is being handled automatically - it shows 3 screens in > my case - one using my radeon driver and the other two using vesa and > fbdev. My old xorg.conf didn't have all that stuff - only radeon - and > the old one works. > > One other thought I had was that maybe mythfrontend needs to be > rebuilt after the conversion to the new xorg-x11. Maybe it's not > linking correctly against the new libraries. I don't know. > > Hope this helps. If you need or want more info let me know. > > - Mark >
Apparently my xorg.conf file has been missing for some time. I made a full backup of /etc on March 1, and it isn't in that one. This may be a stupid question, but is there a way I can generate an xorg.conf file? I thought there used to be a way, way back when before modular X came out, but I can't remember where I saw it...
