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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:21:59 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
To:        Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Gabor PALI <pgj@freebsd.org>, "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@freebsd.org>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Introduce Xorg 7.4 to the X11 configuration section
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Rene Ladan wrote:
> 2009/4/21 Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>:
>   
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Judging from the threads in questions, it seems the new Xorg has caused
>> lots of trouble to users upgrading from 7.3 or installing for the first
>> time (myself included). As there are a few important configuration
>> changes (which I doubt will be undone by newer Xorg versions - it will
>> probably get even more automated) I feel we should document some of
>> these in the Handbook, updating the info already there.
>>
>> Here is a small patch for the X11 chapter which attempts to do this:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~manolis/x11.diff
>>
>> And the build:
>>
>> http://www.freebsdgr.org/handbook-mine/x-config.html
>>
>> This is much smaller than the 1000+ line monster of firewalls, and as
>> always all comments are welcome :)
>>     
>
> The patch looks nice.  Some grammar nits are at
> ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/freebsd/x11.rene.diff
>
>   

Patch updated, thanks!

> I haven't tested the patch on a live system (!), I assume the
> technical content is correct ;-)
>
>   

I can assure you, I've consumed all this 'advice' myself  trying to
upgrade / install 7.4 on more than a couple of systems ;)




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