From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 00:24:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 011AA106564A for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:24:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6F68FC16 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:24:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so749774fgb.35 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:24:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=bSh2qP2eo8aI1PrbPkxqi2K0MKLZeRxYKExC5vT7CAQ=; b=D2vUO7N5p+scMxX1JbeGy/a3YgjOt8I2xGQifbSFvCGTIrAyTa3Bbwi5CmPCc/SAZr FQsKyGkgNlf4fEKtWlgw/2S7kCNcJoeLCqN89nMVXaAoAj2zwV7mq6TTRdoWRlai6ltS RLGbn8vPwV2dLAxQtlPhU8EYUvk/mBA2+mQrY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=UCo5KxvIPzs7AOFZFnr8pjEKgyIEXfCQBVRyjDsc8jD4UIKIfR3vrvlkFiIVFznF82 CK8FbCcS9VYgIdsA2ZWQGYqdlK4LskazeTaUzxS74BQT06SvQfzYZ3077USjC8o1YflS u+zrmeNiD2UrMaYLn1/MG4ifFLJDJzIMdvvD4= Received: by 10.86.33.19 with SMTP id g19mr1035660fgg.50.1216599861266; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.51.1 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0807201724l17c5af2aw9ecc421b46e514f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:24:21 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" To: "Mehmet Erol Sanliturk" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook of FreeBSD : Improvement suggestion ( 1 ) . X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:24:23 -0000 On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > Dear Sirs , > > > How to start X Window is described in the Handbook , but how it is closed , > it is not described . > If you include this information into Handbook X Window part it may be very > useful to users . This isn't in the scope of the handbook (IMHO), and given the number of DE's and WM's out there, ways to represent logon and logoff, this is unnecessary. Besides, the page references other pages which go into how to use the respective X11 environment in more gross detail than the handbook should... > The hardware parts list like a form to record relevant information may be > included into Handbook to be filled > before starting configuration of X Window would be useful . > In that way the installer user may prepare these values before starting > configuration of X . > This is required because some values are not detected correctly when left to > installer causing > an unusable booted FreeBSD . In such a case > it is becoming necessary to install from scratch or when possible , > configure related files which is > difficult for a new user . This is an issue that is just a learning experience with installing X11 and is covered to some extent in . A reference to pciconf -lv couldn't hurt though as a "gather process" before configuring things. > Thank you very much , > > Mehmet Erol Sanliturk Cheers, -Garrett