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On Saturday 24 July 2004 05:24 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote:
I have XORG up and running however, if I install a package vice a port, 
FreeBSD goes out and get the XFree Stuff. Will having both on the machine 
causes problems? I added X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg  to the /etc/make.conf file so 
I am not sure how this is going to work out.
Thanks Derrick





> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:46:04 -0400
>
> Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> 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" <conrads@cox.net> 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)
>
> Seems like that as of currently for a nice chunk of Xorg is like that
>
> :/
>
> My only reason for using it over XF86, is that XF86 integrated the
> acecad driver with the mouse driver, in a massive show of stupidity.
> The end result is that it is no longer possible of using it as a
> tablet.
>
> Not sure what is happening on this area, since the Xorg docs are
> sketchy. Some make it sound like this is true Xorg too and I should
> not have this input module aviable.
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