Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:24:52 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion Message-ID: <20040724162452.4c40cd18@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20040724104604.GA11761@saltmine.radix.net> References: <1090628664.44506.1.camel@leguin> <XFMail.20040723212206.conrads@cox.net> <20040724005154.5e11fd24@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <20040724104604.GA11761@saltmine.radix.net>
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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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