Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:57:20 -0400 From: Derrick Edwards <dantavious@comcast.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion Message-ID: <200407241957.21054.dantavious@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20040724162452.4c40cd18@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> References: <1090628664.44506.1.camel@leguin> <20040724104604.GA11761@saltmine.radix.net> <20040724162452.4c40cd18@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net>
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On Saturday 24 July 2004 05:24 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: I have XORG up and running however, if I install a package vice a port, FreeBSD goes out and get the XFree Stuff. Will having both on the machine causes problems? I added X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg to the /etc/make.conf file so I am not sure how this is going to work out. Thanks Derrick > On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:46:04 -0400 > > Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:51:54AM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:22:06 -0500 (CDT) > > > > > > "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> wrote: > > > > Xorg's auto-configuration is pretty awesome. You really only > > > > need a configuration file now if you want any special > > > > customizations, font paths, etc. > > > > > > Actually from my understanding, this is also in XFree86 4.4, so > > > not really Xorg specific. > > > > yes, in fact the changelog indicates that most of the work done for > > autoconfiguration was done by David Dawes, who is not associated > > with X.Org. > > > > (come on Eric: give credit, don't take it) > > Seems like that as of currently for a nice chunk of Xorg is like that > > :/ > > My only reason for using it over XF86, is that XF86 integrated the > acecad driver with the mouse driver, in a massive show of stupidity. > The end result is that it is no longer possible of using it as a > tablet. > > Not sure what is happening on this area, since the Xorg docs are > sketchy. Some make it sound like this is true Xorg too and I should > not have this input module aviable. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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