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Date:      Fri, 08 Oct 1999 20:30:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
To:        Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Targeting the server: Not such a good idea?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.991008203043.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
In-Reply-To: <4rzaRDa00Uw_1CoKk0@andrew.cmu.edu>

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On 08-Oct-99 Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote:
>   The REAL problem, frankly, is in Xserverland..  FreeBSD can never
> install and boot you into X because it still takes a somewhat
> knowledgable human to configure.  This seems to be changing as of
> release 4.

This is mostly a problem on the part of the X Consortium, IMO. Although the
FreeBSD project could (among its ranks) write its own configuration utility to
figure out what card somebody has, write a good XF86Config for it, etc.

This would require a huge database, however, and a rather knowledgeable person
who understands X11 code well enough..

Frankly, however, I think XF86Setup sucks. Bad.

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