From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 26 01:50:06 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 3A1D316A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:50:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032DF43D60 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:50:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7Q1nPtv011305; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:19:25 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:19:25 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040825150547.GI6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <46780.12.148.147.242.1093448890.squirrel@mail.ringofsaturn.com> <20040825155543.GD4378@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040825155543.GD4378@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200408261119.25101.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.9 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Ken Smith cc: Dan Nelson cc: Rusty Nejdl 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: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:50:06 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:25, Dan Nelson wrote: > > 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. It finds the highest resolution supported by your card _and_ monitor. You should just all buy LCD monitors and not have to worry about the eye=20 strain ;) =2D --=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBLUGl5ZPcIHs/zowRAqlBAJ9lgVt5liEZ/vH9giMEmVaEyXZWhgCeOpA7 QlWeX/aXgAQJyl3XTWCcjqA=3D =3DgUO8 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----