question about xorg 7.4

[doug at safeport.com]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote:

> doug at safeport.com wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
>> 
>>> Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern these 
>>> days.
>
> You can revert to the old style with -retro flag to X .If things are working 
> you should see the old style screen with an X mouse pointer (if enabled)
>
> Not trying to rtfm but 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html

Thanks Chris. I did rtfm. I posted a relatively lengthy vent (civilized rant :) 
that included comments on the excellence of the handbook in this area. It was 
probably lost in the questions down-period. Before dropping back to the 
7.2-release iso version I tried retro and running without and without hal/dbus. 
All this the same result. I did indeed get the black screen but with no 
keyboard.

I believe (but am not 100% sure) that the current version of xorg.conf I am 
running was generate with the -retro option. I am however still running with the 
ati driver. I kind of 'lost interest' in xorg when I got some thing that worked 
and moved on to my next problem, kde4. In the meantime xsetroot saves my eyes 
while I labor on with kde.


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