Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:46:28 -0600 From: Robert Gray <bob@boulderlabs.com> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org configuration in sysinstall Message-ID: <200408251546.i7PFkSxQ075768@vec.boulderlabs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:05:47 EDT."
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Yes, eliminate the opportunity to configure X from sysinstall because the risk of hanging/crashing is too large. Even yesterday with 5.3Beta1, I had to hand massage a /etc/X11/X86Config to get X working with a Presario I810 82845G chipset. -robert gray Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:05:47 EDT says: > >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? > >-- > Ken Smith
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