severity 562490 normal tag 562490 moreinfo kthxbye On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 18:46:42 +0000, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Starting X without /etc/X11/xorg.conf present produces a mostly > working X configuration with only a couple keyboard anomalies. > > Running sudo Xorg -configure && cp ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf > results in X not being able to start at all. > > My read of the docs suggests this ought not to be the case: that the > auto-gen'ed config (Xorg -configure) should be equivalent to what is > produced by running Xorg with no config present. Anyway, this makes > it difficult to modify the config, since the only one I've gotten to > work is the non-existent config. > That's not true, when starting without an xorg.conf the builtin config is output to the Xorg log, so you can start from that. It's hard to tell what your issue with Xorg -configure is, since you didn't attach the corresponding config and log. > ps: I previously filed this as bug#561699 under package > xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd. In the absence of response after a week, > and with some doubt which package is really responsible for the > problem, I file this again here. > Please don't do that. We get lots of bugs, and can't get to all of them in a week. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
