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> 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?
>
>

Ken,

I think I missed something here.  Doesn't xorg have a nifty
auto-configuration utility that can run without having to do any
configuration?  If so, this is even more reason to not call this out
during sysinstall.

Rusty Nejdl