Xorg -configure ... Segmentation fault at address 0x0

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Warren Block wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette 
>> <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to bring up a new wokrstation.  I've just successfully
>>> installed 10.1-RELEASE and I'm now just trying to get X properly
>>> configured.  So far it isn't going at all well.
>>> 
>>> Logs are attached below.  The system, in question contains AMD A4-6300
>>> APU.  I found this page which says, at the very bottom, that this is a
>>> known problem:
>>>
>>>    https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
>>> 
>>> Is there an ETA for a fix?
>>> 
>>> Not that I have heard, but i may have missed something.
>> 
>> To ask a really dumb question, why are you doing "Xorg -configure"? One
>> reason that there has been a lot of breakage in Xorg -configure is that it
>> is so little used and less often needed.
>
> Unfortunately, the Handbook still recommends it.  I added a Quick Start 
> section that shows using it without generating a config file, but now I see 
> the HTML version being served by FreeBSD.org is from September.

Never mind, it just needed a refresh:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#x-config-quick-start