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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:09:05 +0200
From:      Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
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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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

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

Regards,
Rene
-- 
http://www.rene-ladan.nl/



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