From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 15:48:40 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 458F816A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:48:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd.org.cn (dns3.freebsd.org.cn [61.129.66.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8D0B43D41 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:48:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from junsu@delphij.net) Received: (qmail 32501 invoked by uid 0); 25 Aug 2004 15:45:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO beastie.frontfree.net) (219.239.98.7) by mail.freebsd.org.cn with SMTP; 25 Aug 2004 15:45:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F23F1312B8; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:16:44 +0800 (CST) Received: from beastie.frontfree.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beastie.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00700-03; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:16:39 +0800 (CST) Received: from [211.161.222.169] (unknown [211.161.222.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DB813129B; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:16:37 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <412CAD50.4060007@delphij.net> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:16:32 +0800 From: Jun Su User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040816 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 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at frontfree.net X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:52:26 +0000 cc: 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 15:48:40 -0000 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? > I even runs XOrg without doing any manually config. Its auto-config system is very useful. I suggest we can use usr/bin/X11R5/bin/getconfig.pl to generate an initial config before users begin config. Jun