On 9/10/13, Martin Brandenburg <mar...@martinbrandenburg.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:18:43PM +0000, Heptas Torres wrote: >> I am trying to generate a starting xorg.conf file by running "X >> -configure" but get a segmentation fault error (output below). Any >> ideas what could go wrong? Have tried this both in a VMware guest and >> on real hardware but I get the same problems. dmesg is at the end. >> thanks >> -h > > A similar problem was discussed about a month ago here[1]. The code of X > -configure is not maintained. See Matthieu Herrb's suggestions in the > archive or enclosed below.
Thanks for the pointer. Wanted to run cwm but could not make it work - I guess it's related to the problem you mention. Does this mean that obsd as a desktop is not really supported on the long run? Maybe the page at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq11.html#amd64i386 should be updated so that it gives an indication that the info is not updated? Thought quality of the documentation was a core goal of obsd :) -H > [1] http://mid.gmane.org/20130819055603.ga12...@nebraska.herrb.net > > - Martin > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:56:04 +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: >> 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).
