On 04/02/2017 07:35 AM, Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 04/02/2017 06:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
My best guess is that the problem was due to a recent update to
x11-base/xorg-server On both my systems it now requires USE="glamor".
This may require changes to xorg.conf. On my main desktop, with no
xorg.conf, X does the detection and configuration "auto-magically". The
hot backup machine would have an old xorg.conf with old (i.e. wrong)
settings for the updated xorg-server.
This has been the case for many years now. Anyway, better late than
never :-P
You do sometimes need some custom settings though. This goes in
seperate *.conf files now, which must be inside the
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. Some packages can place a config file
there automatically.
I still have a xorg.conf file here. May have to test removing it one
day. I also have a file in the xorg.conf.d/ directory. After it reads
my file, will it also read the file in the directory or does it ignore
anything else since I have the old file? The file is named 20opengl.conf.
I seem to recall trying to run without it ages ago and something not
working. Can't recall what it was since it was a good long while back.
If you don't *need* an xorg.conf (and you don't, otherwise you'd know
:-P) then it's best to not have one. It's nothing dangerous to try. Just
move it somewhere else and logout/login. If something breaks, just move
the file back (or better, see what option you have in it that seems you
need to provide manually, and split that into a .conf file inside
xorg.conf.d. That's how I configure my nvidia driver. I have no
xorg.conf. Instead, I have an xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf file:
https://pastebin.com/raw/0GsxaFRj
It's a good system. I can do small, "surgical" tweaks to options without
having to maintain a full xorg.conf file.
