WITH_NEW_XORG=yes -- failure

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <509843EF.2070008 at gmail.com>, 
matt <sendtomatt at gmail.com> wrote:

>Try hand writing your xorg.conf (or using an old one, or using none at
>all)...

OK.  I can fetch a previous known-working xorg.conf and I can (and will)
try that, however...

Isn't all of this NEW_XORG stuff eventually supposed to be become the
new "official" xorg stuff for FreeBSD?  If so, is anybody going to work
on fixing this, which appears to be a quite serious bug?


>WITH_NEW_XORG does apparently use some new methods to probe for
>video, but in this case it sounds like X -configure is getting confused
>by a video controller you don't use or there is some other issue probing
>one device.

It would seem so.

For the record, the machine in question has motherboard MSI K9VGM-V,
which is a micro-ATX with on-board integrated VIA K8M890CE graphics,
*and* also I have an ATI X600 PCIe board installed.  I do use the latter.
I do not use the former.

>The error message is vague,

Yes.  It is.

>it's hard to tell if it's say a
>device issue or an edid issue (for example) because it doesn't imply
>whether screens are more numerous or devices.

I only have one monitor, and it is plugged in to the X600 card (via DVI).

Perhaps X is unhappy that I have nothing plugged into the on-board graphics.

>You could try removing all
>drivers except the ones you intend to use as well.

Well, I'll see how things go with the xorg.conf file that I was using on this
machine before.