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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 25), Rusty Nejdl said:
> > 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.
> 
> I think I missed something here.  Doesn't xorg have a nifty
> auto-configuration utility that can run without having to do any
> configuration?  If so, this is even more reason to not call this out
> during sysinstall.

Both XFree86 and X.org have the same autoconfig capabilities afaik.
They always seem to choose the highest resolution supported by the
card, which usually results in teeny tiny text.

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	Dan Nelson
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