From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 25 10:55:47 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 4EFB516A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:55:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B9143D2D for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:55:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.103] (c-24-21-18-195.client.comcast.net[24.21.18.195]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2004072510554201400deolte>; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:55:46 +0000 From: Eric Anholt To: Thomas Dickey In-Reply-To: <20040724104604.GA11761@saltmine.radix.net> References: <1090628664.44506.1.camel@leguin> <20040724005154.5e11fd24@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <20040724104604.GA11761@saltmine.radix.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1090752941.882.22.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 03:55:41 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Rossam Souza da Silva cc: Vulpes Velox cc: Michael Johnson cc: dantavious@comcast.net Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion 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: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:55:47 -0000 On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 03:46, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:51:54AM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:22:06 -0500 (CDT) > > "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: > > > > > Xorg's auto-configuration is pretty awesome. You really only need a > > > configuration file now if you want any special customizations, font > > > paths, etc. > > > > Actually from my understanding, this is also in XFree86 4.4, so not > > really Xorg specific. > > yes, in fact the changelog indicates that most of the work done for > autoconfiguration was done by David Dawes, who is not associated with > X.Org. > > (come on Eric: give credit, don't take it) I didn't take any credit here. I didn't even mention autoconfiguration in my email, because I seemed to remember it being committed under the X-Oz license, in which case it wouldn't have been added to X.Org unless there was some mistake. I guess I was wrong, and it is in there. (All of my systems already have XF86Configs, and so things continue to work fine without any additional configuration). Yes, David Dawes did do that work, and it is *extremely* valuable. (Ahh, it's copyright X-Oz, but is MIT-style and not BSD-with-big-advertising-clause like the 1.1 license) -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org