On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:49:25AM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: > On 8/18/13, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just upgraded my MacMini to current/macppc. > > As the snapshot contains base sets from Aug 17 > > but the X sets are from July 22, I recompiled > > everything from current source after the upgrade > > to make sure everything is over the recent ABI change. > > > > This is what the new radeon code says > > at the end of the boot sequence > > (see full dmesg below): > > [snip] > > > Trying to run 'Xorg -configure' results in the screen > > just going black. The machine is remotely accessible though, > > and once I log in, I don't see anything X-related running. > > Running with -configure has been like this for a long time. > I've reported this at least a couple of times in the past when > I was using my ibook G4 as my daily laptop. > > I don't believe any of my posts got anyone's response. It > has been a while though. >
I've written to a number of mailing lists of a long time that the code behind X -configure is not maintained (and there are a number of knwon issues) and that I strongly recommend not using it. Running X without a config file is much more likely to produce a working result. And for the few cases where an xorg.conf file is needed, just read the xorg.conf(5) man page and use a text editor to create one containing only the needed section(s). -- Matthieu Herrb
