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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 04/02/2017 07:35 AM, Dale wrote: |
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>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> On 04/02/2017 06:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>>>> My best guess is that the problem was due to a recent update to |
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>>>> x11-base/xorg-server On both my systems it now requires USE="glamor". |
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>>>> This may require changes to xorg.conf. On my main desktop, with no |
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>>>> xorg.conf, X does the detection and configuration |
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>>>> "auto-magically". The |
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>>>> hot backup machine would have an old xorg.conf with old (i.e. wrong) |
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>>>> settings for the updated xorg-server. |
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>>> This has been the case for many years now. Anyway, better late than |
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>>> never :-P |
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>>> You do sometimes need some custom settings though. This goes in |
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>>> seperate *.conf files now, which must be inside the |
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>>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. Some packages can place a config file |
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>>> there automatically. |
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>> I still have a xorg.conf file here. May have to test removing it one |
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>> day. I also have a file in the xorg.conf.d/ directory. After it reads |
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>> my file, will it also read the file in the directory or does it ignore |
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>> anything else since I have the old file? The file is named |
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>> 20opengl.conf. |
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>> I seem to recall trying to run without it ages ago and something not |
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>> working. Can't recall what it was since it was a good long while back. |
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> If you don't *need* an xorg.conf (and you don't, otherwise you'd know |
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> :-P) then it's best to not have one. It's nothing dangerous to try. |
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> Just move it somewhere else and logout/login. If something breaks, |
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> just move the file back (or better, see what option you have in it |
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> that seems you need to provide manually, and split that into a .conf |
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> file inside xorg.conf.d. That's how I configure my nvidia driver. I |
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> have no xorg.conf. Instead, I have an xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf file: |
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> https://pastebin.com/raw/0GsxaFRj |
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> It's a good system. I can do small, "surgical" tweaks to options |
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> without having to maintain a full xorg.conf file. |
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As I mentioned earlier, I tried it without a xorg file a while back and |
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it didn't work. That is how I knew I had to keep my old one. Until I |
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try it again, then I won't know if I need one or not. I didn't have |
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anything special when I tried it last time, single monitor and a normal |
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video card, and it was needed then. Now I have a monitor but also a TV |
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connected that I watch shows on. My current setup is a bit more |
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complicated now than it was then. |
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Thing is, I don't have time to test this right now. I don't want to |
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start to test it, get involved in getting it working and only get part |
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way through only to find out I have something else I have to go do. If |
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I'm going to start it, I'd like to have time to finish it. Until I do |
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that, I won't know if I need a xorg file or just a couple files in |
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xorg.conf.d or something else. That also is not to mention that I have |
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no idea what needs to go into those new files at this time, if anything |
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is needed. |
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Maybe some day soon. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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