Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:16:32 +0800 From: Jun Su <junsu@delphij.net> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org configuration in sysinstall Message-ID: <412CAD50.4060007@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <20040825150547.GI6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20040825150547.GI6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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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
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