From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 8 17:30:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from neptune.psn.net (neptune.psn.net [207.211.58.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BDB14DE5 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@shadow.blackdawn.com) Received: from 5042-243.008.popsite.net ([209.224.140.243] helo=shadow.blackdawn.com) by neptune.psn.net with esmtp (PSN Internet Service 2.12 #3) id 11ZkPQ-0006YZ-00; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:30:49 -0700 Received: (from will@localhost) by shadow.blackdawn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00837; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 20:30:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from will) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4rzaRDa00Uw_1CoKk0@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 20:30:43 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: Will Andrews From: Will Andrews To: Thomas Valentino Crimi Subject: Re: Targeting the server: Not such a good idea? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message