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Date:      Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:19:19 -0800
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WITH_NEW_XORG=yes -- failure
Message-ID:  <48772.1352179159@tristatelogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <50989423.5020509@gmail.com>

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In message <50989423.5020509@gmail.com>, 
matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 11/05/12 15:19, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>
>> Isn't all of this NEW_XORG stuff eventually supposed to be become the
>> new "official" xorg stuff for FreeBSD?  If so, is anybody going to work
>> on fixing this, which appears to be a quite serious bug?
>>
>Personally, and with all due internet respect, I think it's not really a
>bug (in this case)...you do have two video cards with valid drivers. If
>you had one card and the correct driver, everything would be fine. If
>you had two cards and only the correct driver for the card you wanted,
>you would be fine. Since you had two cards and two correct drivers X
>-configure tried to setup both cards and exited when that failed.

Personally, and with all due internet respect, why should it have failed?

Cannot X run ``two headed''?  (I really thought that it could, but perhaps
I was mistaken.)

It is sometimes said that two heads are better than one, but perhaps not
in this case.


Regards,
rfg



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