x11/xorg update.

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Tue Jun 19 16:44:26 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:17:43PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:50:38 -0700
> Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> 
> > 	The xorg.conf I created on 09jun07 was around 1K  bytes.  The 
> > 	new one is around 4 times that size.  My logs clued me in --
> > 	partly.  In /var/log/gdm/:0.log was the problem.  An (EE)
> > 	that said I was missing some required module. 
> 
> this probably was due to your old xorg.conf having the wrong paths in it. The
> errors should be pretty obvious, otherwise using xorgcfg should make a good one
> and you can, at least, use it to compare the differences.


	Ah, this is the new scriptthat creates xorg.conf, correct?
	A bit easier than typing X -configure and messing with the 
	/root files.  What I don't understand is all the output about
	missing modules to stderr.  ...but .... ... .

> 
> good to hear u're back into X :) 
> 

	Me too!

	gary


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