bug#28578: xorg not starting on x200 due to recent commit

[Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Hi,
>
>> In the meanwhile, I've figured maybe I could test trying to set up xorg
>> to use a specific driver to see if that fixes it:
>>
>>   (services (cons*
>>              ;;; ...
>>              (modify-services %desktop-services
>>                               (slim-service-type
>>                                startx =>
>>                                (xorg-start-command
>>                                 #:configuration-file
>>                                 (xorg-configuration-file
>>                                  #:drivers '("intel")))))))
>
> This is what my modification looks like:
>
>                      (slim-service-type
>                       config => (slim-configuration
>                                  (inherit config)
>                                  (startx (xorg-start-command
>                                           #:configuration-file
>                                           (xorg-configuration-file
>                                            #:extra-config
>                                            (list marble-mouse-settings
>                                                  dvorak-evdev))))))
>
> i.e. I’m capturing the default config, inherit from it, and the override
> the “startx” field.  You are capturing the default config as “startx”
> and then replace the configuration with the value returned by
> “xorg-start-command”.  That doesn’t look right.

Thank you!  I switched it to:

             (modify-services %desktop-services
                              (slim-service-type
                               config => (slim-configuration
                                          (inherit config)
                                          (startx (xorg-start-command
                                                   #:configuration-file
                                                   (xorg-configuration-file
                                                    #:drivers '("intel")))))))

This solved it for me... xorg is back up and running again!

So I guess if you have an old x200 or so and are having this problem
(which seemingly at the moment nobody else is, so I'm closing this): do
as I did and (hopefully) that should solve it!