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paroneayea
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 Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject: Guide to new xorg config |
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I'm sure others have felt the frustration noticing the new changes to their xorg configuration in this latest release. One of the most important changes to note is that you should change
to
or else you won't be able to startx.
The only other thing I've noticed is that opengl apps now crash xorg, but I don't know the cause of that.
Are there any other changes a user should make?
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: Guide to new xorg config |
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| paroneayea wrote: | I'm sure others have felt the frustration noticing the new changes to their xorg configuration in this latest release. One of the most important changes to note is that you should change
to
or else you won't be able to startx.
The only other thing I've noticed is that opengl apps now crash xorg, but I don't know the cause of that.
Are there any other changes a user should make? |
sorry if i am being dumb but I dont see the difference? |
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ratbert90
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: Guide to new xorg config |
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| Naib wrote: | | paroneayea wrote: | I'm sure others have felt the frustration noticing the new changes to their xorg configuration in this latest release. One of the most important changes to note is that you should change
to
or else you won't be able to startx.
The only other thing I've noticed is that opengl apps now crash xorg, but I don't know the cause of that.
Are there any other changes a user should make? |
sorry if i am being dumb but I dont see the difference? |
K is not capatalized.
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tollwilly125
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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just rename XF86config => xorg.conf if youre switching from xfree. it worked flawlessly for me.
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didn't for me. i had to rebuild from scratch. not a huge deal, but X borqed after a restart.
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paroneayea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| tollwilly125 wrote: | | just rename XF86config => xorg.conf if youre switching from xfree. it worked flawlessly for me. |
When I first moved over to xorg, that worked. But I'm not talking about that. In the latest release of xorg, the configuration options have changed, so even copying your old xorg.conf file won't save you.
Maybe someone has a copy of some notice regarding changes in the configuration file syntax? I can't seem to find any.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Last time I heard it was Keyboard --> kbd , is it now kbd --> keyboard ? |
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truekaiser
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| yea last i heard they changed it from K/keyboard to kbd |
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paroneayea
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Okay, I figured out the other change you'll want to make to your xorg.conf ... that is, if you want OpenGL programs to work.
What used to be
has changed to
Like "Keyboard" and "keyboard", it is a matter of case-sensitivity. For whatever reason, the xorg project has decided to change their capitalization.
By the way, I figured this out by taking a look at README.DRI
I just took a guess that they'd change the case-sensitivity again. I just made the change now, so I'm going to close and reopen x.
(If anyone finds out anything else that needs to be done, note it here.)
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paroneayea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| truekaiser wrote: | | yea last i heard they changed it from K/keyboard to kbd |
If that's true, then I'm guessing that that's the case for CVS.... or they just switched it from kbd to keyboard. Regardless, "keyboard" is the correct format for the latest stable release as of this post, xorg-x11-6.8.0
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paroneayea
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Hm. This is strange... README.DRI does say that you need to change "dri" to "DRI" (as I was saying before), but apparently something else does need to be done too. I can't figure out what it is though. Blender keeps crashing X every time I try to run it, as does the rest of my OpenGL based programs.
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paroneayea
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To add to the confusion, running xdpyinfo yields
| Code: | name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: Gentoo Linux (The X.Org Foundation 6.8.0, revision r1-0.2.1)
vendor release number: 60800000
X.Org version: 6.8.0
maximum request size: 16777212 bytes
motion buffer size: 256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 7
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 255
focus: window 0xc00021, revert to Parent
number of extensions: 32
ATIFGLEXTENSION
ATIFGLRXDRI
ATITVOUT
BIG-REQUESTS
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
Extended-Visual-Information
GLX
LBX
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
RANDR
RENDER
SECURITY
SGI-GLX
SHAPE
SYNC
TOG-CUP
X-Resource
XC-APPGROUP
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-Bigfont
XFree86-DRI
XFree86-Misc
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1
screen #0:
print screen: no
dimensions: 1400x1050 pixels (474x356 millimeters)
resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
root window id: 0x38
depth of root window: 24 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x20
default number of colormap cells: 256
preallocated pixels: black 0, white 16777215
options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO
largest cursor: 64x64
current input event mask: 0xf2001d
KeyPressMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask
EnterWindowMask StructureNotifyMask SubstructureRedirectMask
FocusChangeMask PropertyChangeMask ColormapChangeMask
number of visuals: 2
default visual id: 0x23
visual:
visual id: 0x23
class: TrueColor
depth: 24 planes
available colormap entries: 256 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x24
class: DirectColor
depth: 24 planes
available colormap entries: 256 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits |
So, since GLD, SGI-GLX and XFreee86-DRI are there, I have no idea why this isn't working. Oddness.
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paroneayea
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It turns out that you can use either "keyboard" or "kbd".... either works.
I think that my opengl problems might be due to the ati drivers.... I'm hearing this come up in other places, notably here and here.
What I don't get is why this just started happening. It worked fine with the last version of xorg I was using. Well... time to move backwards a release.
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