From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 15:42:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1629F16A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:42:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from saturn.criticalmagic.com (saturn.criticalmagic.com [64.74.124.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA4143D5A for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:42:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rcoleman@criticalmagic.com) Received: from [172.16.0.202] (c-24-99-11-35.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.99.11.35]) by saturn.criticalmagic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792083BD5A; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:42:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <412CB3EC.6090504@criticalmagic.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:44:44 -0400 From: Richard Coleman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Smith References: <20040825150547.GI6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20040825150547.GI6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org configuration in sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:42:19 -0000 I agree that pulling X configuration out of sysinstall is good. But it would be nice if during the install it was mentioned that "X11 configuration should be done after the install using xorgcfg". That way people will know the name of the command to use. Richard Coleman rcoleman@criticalmagic.com Ken Smith wrote: > I'm doing some final cleaning up of the X.org migration's impact on > sysinstall. At the moment what sysinstall tries to use to configure > X.org appears to be useless - it runs "xorgcfg" with no arguments > which seems to successfully start the server but then just sits there > with nothing else happening. > > As part of merging in the X.org setup to begin with Eric seemed in > favor of eliminating the X server config from sysinstall completely. > There are lots of holes in lots of feet caused by this step failing. > That or other options that fix the basic problem in a more complex > way can be discussed for future releases. > > For now I'm thinking we should just rip out the offer sysinstall > makes for doing a graphical configuration and leave it at that for > the 5.3 release. The text mode configuration appears to work. > > Any thoughts? >