Script to help find xorg configuration issues

[Gleb Popov]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 10:01 PM ajtiM via freebsd-x11 <
freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 15:36:19 +0100
> Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been helping others configuring X11 with UDEV/evdev for quite
> > some time now. Since UDEV recently became the default option on
> > 12.1[0], I thought that having something automated (yet
> > non-intrusive) to help users fix their setup might be useful.
> >
> > To achieve this, I created a small/hacky script today that checks all
> > the usual problems I found while helping people figuring out what's
> > wrong with their setup.
> >
> > You can find it on github:
> > https://github.com/grembo/xorg-udev-setup-check
> >
> > Direct download link:
> >
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grembo/xorg-udev-setup-check/master/xorg-udev-setup-check.sh
> >
> > Usage: ./xorg-udev-setup-check.sh [-hdpi]
> >    -h print this help
> >    -d skip drm checks
> >    -p skip package version checks
> >    -i only show errors (suppress info)
> >
> > You should be able to run it as an unprivileged user - fixing things
> > will require root privileges though.
> >
> > I didn't test it thoroughly, so feel free to open pull requests
> > on github - functional improvements only please, don't try to improve
> > the code quality.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Michael
> >
> > [0]https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196678
> >
>
> Thank you for the script but I did downgrade 11th times because new
> xserve doesn't work on my system.
> The script found just that I need to put radeon or intel in rc.conf. For
> my Radeon drm.kmod doesn't work - black screen and I am using scfb
> driver which doesn't work on new xserver or I do nnot know how to do.
> As I wrote before I have in /usr/local/etc/xorg.conf.d/driver_scfb.conf
> where I have
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier "Card0"
>         Driver     "scfb"
> EndSection
>
> and work for me on old xserver.
>
> Thank you. No more update and downgrade. I need to work too.
>

Downgrading shouldn't be a lot of work with ZFS snapshots.