Comment 43 for bug 1541082

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 4:19 PM, ernsteiswuerfel <email address hidden>
wrote:

> In the meantime you could try to get one of the other drivers
> "modesetting", "fbdev", "fbdevhw" to work with 24 bit depth. You can use
> my xorg.conf as starting point and edit it manually. Just put it in
> /etc/X11.
>

@ernst:

Thanks for the info and the advice . . . yes, clearly the r128 module isn't
working very well . . . . I was leaving it to see if there was any other
troubleshooting to try out. I'll have to look over filing a bug report and
then getting the Xorg.log out to them; I've done that a few times over the
years, but, then so much time passes that it isn't as "clear" as it was.

But, I took a look at your basic xorg.conf . . . I was earlier wondering
that if I ran the "Xorg -configure" gambit, and see which video driver it
would "pick up" . . . ??? I think it would look similar to your file????
I have done the xorg.conf thing quite a number of times, using another one
and editing it, etc . . . but, in some ways the -configure gambit is
"easier"???

I guess the question is, if before the r128 install I wasn't using an
xorg.conf file, do I need one now? Or, I would have to do a fresh install
to get back to "the way it was" and now, no choice but the use one?
Looking over the log it was looking like it was or is using "24 bit depth"
. . . but, now, "can't find a screen"???

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