Re: xorg problems

2018-12-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/21/18 3:56 PM, ja wrote: On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 11:57 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:39:09 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: I know when I put an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11, X refused to start and I was left with a blank screen. You can put fragments of an xorg.conf fil

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread ja
On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 11:57 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:39:09 -0500 > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I know when I put an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11, X refused to > > > > start and I was left with a blank screen. > > You can put fragments of an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/xo

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:39:09 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > I know when I put an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11,  X refused to > > start and I was left with a blank screen. You can put fragments of an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, to just override a few defaults, but I have no idea what t

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-21 9:49 a.m., Tom Horsley wrote: Is there a work around. I see this bug claims it is related to the PageFlip option which is enabled by default. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/issues/68 Presumably if you disable PageFlip, the spamming would stop (and it is probably OK

Re: xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Tom Horsley
> Is there a work around. I see this bug claims it is related to the PageFlip option which is enabled by default. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/issues/68 Presumably if you disable PageFlip, the spamming would stop (and it is probably OK to disable since it isn't working anyway :-).

xorg problems

2018-12-21 Thread Frank McCormick
Noticed last night that my xorg log is growing wildly. Its fillling up with these lines: 814.151] (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed [   814.163] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to get GBM bo for flip to new front. [   814.163] (EE) modeset(0): present flip failed [   814.178] (EE) modeset(0): Failed