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[SOLVED] [Somewhat] Xorg woes...
Acquired a smaller LCD which has a vastly improved screen. Howsoever, the bottom line was not visible to type on, (rudimentary bios maybe with that cabling.) (without Tmux loaded that is, but tmux somehow messes up using editors etc on that screen.) Changing the input, Bios menus have more options, but Xorg fails to start with a good enough resolution. Chance googling (xorg.conf structure or something) found a xorg.conf from scratch
linux manual which explained each part (first one i'd every seen) As I had / have numerous xorg.conf's accumlated with names such as... Code:
xorg.conf.WKG xorg.conf xorg.conf.crt.2006 xorg.conf.lcd.broken xorg.conf.v7_2008 unused options. So finding the above document, I wrote from scratch an xorg.conf, which automagically worked. (typing a long !xinit ) line from history without seeing the typed line); Or with the other cabling to the lcd, its resolution was lesser (the typing line visible), X stuck at 800x600 or less. So everything was perfect with workarounds but not as it should be finalized. Decided to upgrade the xorg.conf to one which would accept the second cabling, made the Xorg.log verbose, added a few arcane options to the xorg.conf ( google searches for Xorg errors ninety percent have other person's "issues" not "answers", indeed unanswered posts, so it is very hit and miss. More exprerimentation, recompiling, and editing resulted in: a vesa xorg.conf-- which only shows 20 percent of the screen a nv xorg.conf-- which segfaults and logs the session out of Freebsd Accumulate error logs, saved with diffuse names, which are more verbose, but end in a non-verbose segfault. So what was a perfectly usable AS IN ... 90 percent of windows/linux/bsd users will never experience such a pretty lcd... workaround but hardly recommendable for hardware which should be highly recommendable, became a entirely-unusable Xorg which loads to not usable, or segfaults entirely. As that is not my primary system, I can restore from backups of a few weeks ago, but does anyone have any better idea? The only thing I can think of besides an entirely different way of setting up xorg.conf written from scratch, is if every registered BSD user on the other forums were to post their xorg.conf in a long thread (if used), and one could pick and choose... .................................................. ............................. Not wanting to waste other's time with this, but a slight chance someone else has a working configuration based on the above or knows a more timely way to solve it. .................................................. .............................. On a hunch, I restored one of the eight or so xorg.conf's with long names from a different local backup subdirectory. Worked out-of-the-box to restore the nice screen (not the alternate cabled one), "nouveau" ... meaning I should probably keep the current working workaround (initial bsd logon, no visible type, but many VERY_usable xterms's) until .... ??? .................................................. ............................... Last edited by jb_daefo; 26th May 2011 at 04:22 AM. Reason: solved ? |
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/usr/local/bin/Xorg -configure -retro 1. CPU architecture 2. Monitor |
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