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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:44:44 -0400
From:      Richard Coleman <rcoleman@criticalmagic.com>
To:        Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X.org configuration in sysinstall
Message-ID:  <412CB3EC.6090504@criticalmagic.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040825150547.GI6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
References:  <20040825150547.GI6962@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>

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I agree that pulling X configuration out of sysinstall is good.  But
it would be nice if during the install it was mentioned that "X11
configuration should be done after the install using xorgcfg".  That
way people will know the name of the command to use.

Richard Coleman
rcoleman@criticalmagic.com

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?
> 



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