Xorg -configure ... Segmentation fault at address 0x0

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to bring up a new wokrstation.  I've just successfully
>> installed 10.1-RELEASE and I'm now just trying to get X properly
>> configured.  So far it isn't going at all well.
>>
>> Logs are attached below.  The system, in question contains AMD A4-6300
>> APU.  I found this page which says, at the very bottom, that this is a
>> known problem:
>>
>>    https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
>>
>> Is there an ETA for a fix?
>>
>> Not that I have heard, but i may have missed something.
>
> To ask a really dumb question, why are you doing "Xorg -configure"? One
> reason that there has been a lot of breakage in Xorg -configure is that it
> is so little used and less often needed.

Unfortunately, the Handbook still recommends it.  I added a Quick Start 
section that shows using it without generating a config file, but now I 
see the HTML version being served by FreeBSD.org is from September.

Really, the whole Xorg chapter needs a rewrite.  I have loose outlines 
for that, but it's a big job and there have been numerous other things 
that have popped up recently.