On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:31:40PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > All my Stretch installations are using /var/log/ for Xorg.#.log whether I use > startx (with or without a DM running) or not. All my openSUSEes are, and even > my > Fedoras IIRC.
In stretch, startx uses /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you run it as root, or ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log if you run it as a non-root user. (Learned that one the hard way... trying to diagnose my own Intel video chipset issues, and kept looking at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from that one time I had run startx as root, instead of the *current* log that was being written elsewhere. Took a while to figure out why my changes were having no effect in the log....) > Once upon a time, Intel gfx did not need any firmware that was not part of a > default or minimal installation. :-( Yup. This changed with the intel->modeset switch in stretch. The modeset driver wants firmware.
