Xorg Fails on HP Envy 3D Laptop

[Tom Evans]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 20/07/2011 09:43 Thomas D. Dean said the following:
>> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new  blanks the screen and the does nothing.
>> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new screen='Screen0' fails with a blank screen
>> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new screen='Screen1' fails with a blank screen
>>
>> I changed the driver to vesa in both sections.
>> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new screen='Screen0' fails with a blank screen
>> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new screen='Screen01 fails with a blank screen
>
> Are you sure that it fails?
> Recent Xorg server _starts_ with a blank screen.  If you don't have any X clients
> that draw something, then all you would see is a blank screen.
>

Use -retro to get the old style behaviour, eg:

Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro screen='Screen0'

Cheers

Tom