Re: X no longer working - snapshots downloaded today

[Michael van der Westhuizen <Michael.vanderWesthuizen@intec.co.za>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthieu Herrb [mailto:matthieu.herrb@laas.fr] 
> Sent: 01 March 2004 09:24 AM
[snip]
> Did you try some single-head configuration ?

At some stage in the past, yes. But not recently.

> It looks to me that you over-constrained the modes in you 
> XF86Config and 
>   that the X server cannot find a supported mode. (But without seeing 
> the actual XF86Config file it's hard to tell).

It's the same XF86Config file that was used with the previous snapshot
that worked, so I doubt it.

The config is that which was generated by 'XFree86 -configure' - I then
had to edit it because my second card was not reading the monitor
capabilities correctly - nothing that affects the first head has been
touched other than limiting it to 1280x1024.

> Can you try moving /etc/X11/XF86Config apart and restarting X?
> The new X server has the ability to run without a configuration file.

I'll give that a go tonight, but I wonder a lot about this; there have
been specific changes to the X code to merge in functionality from an
external program that I *never* had to run, there have been no changes
in the corresponding OpenBSD portion of the code (I checked) -
considering that things worked before, surely this is an X problem, not
an OpenBSD problem.

Alternately I could just roll back to 4.3.0 and check if that
works - I'll give that a go tonight as well.

Michael


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