On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 07:43:04AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I reiinstalled (avoiding past missteps), to a console, and from it > installed xorg and fluxbox. I then ran xstart from console and all went > well. > > With one exception. I'm in what looks like VGA mode with large crude > characters. It seems a problem (or symptom) is that installation did not > create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory that should holding, I > presume, a 20-nvidia.conf file. I created them by hand, but startx > failed with error in log to effect that there is no server section. > I suspect this is not the file that should have a Server section. > > I purged and reinstalled xorg without luck. Installed were libglu1-mesa, > x11-apps, x11-session-utils, x11-server-utils, xinit, xorg, > xorg-docs-core. > > The xorg log tells me that it is using as system configuration > directory, /usr/share/X11/xorg.c. Because this file does not exist, the > log complains about missing layout, screen and monitor definitions. It > seems xorg is using defaults.
Xorg looks in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, then /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. If you would rather use a single-file xorg.conf, you can create it via "Xorg -configure" (IIRC). But besides that, I'm wondering about a couple things. 1: You refer to "20-nvidia.conf". I'd assume that this would come from the nvidia driver, which I see no reference to in your list of packages. 2: You refer to "/usr/share/X11/xorg.c." Is this a typo/abbreviation, or is Xorg misconfigured? Thanks, Isaac _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
