Re: X.org configuration in sysinstall

From: Jun Su <junsu_at_delphij.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:16:32 +0800
Ken Smith wrote:
> I'm doing some final cleaning up of the X.org migration's impact on
> sysinstall.  At the moment what sysinstall tries to use to configure
> X.org appears to be useless - it runs "xorgcfg" with no arguments
> which seems to successfully start the server but then just sits there
> with nothing else happening.
> 
> As part of merging in the X.org setup to begin with Eric seemed
> in favor of eliminating the X server config from sysinstall completely.
> There are lots of holes in lots of feet caused by this step failing.
> That or other options that fix the basic problem in a more complex
> way can be discussed for future releases.
> 
> For now I'm thinking we should just rip out the offer sysinstall makes
> for doing a graphical configuration and leave it at that for the 5.3
> release.  The text mode configuration appears to work.
> 
> Any thoughts? 
> 

I even runs XOrg without doing any manually config. Its auto-config 
system is very useful. I suggest we can use 
usr/bin/X11R5/bin/getconfig.pl to generate an initial config before 
users begin config.

Jun
Received on Wed Aug 25 2004 - 13:48:40 UTC

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