[PATCH] Introduce Xorg 7.4 to the X11 configuration section

[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:21:59 +0300
Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rene Ladan wrote:
> > 2009/4/21 Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com>:
> >   
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> Judging from the threads in questions, it seems the new Xorg has caused
> >> lots of trouble to users upgrading from 7.3 or installing for the first
> >> time (myself included). As there are a few important configuration
> >> changes (which I doubt will be undone by newer Xorg versions - it will
> >> probably get even more automated) I feel we should document some of
> >> these in the Handbook, updating the info already there.
> >>
> >> Here is a small patch for the X11 chapter which attempts to do this:
> >>
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~manolis/x11.diff
> >>
> >> And the build:
> >>
> >> http://www.freebsdgr.org/handbook-mine/x-config.html
> >>
> >> This is much smaller than the 1000+ line monster of firewalls, and as
> >> always all comments are welcome :)
> >>     
> >
> > The patch looks nice.  Some grammar nits are at
> > ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/freebsd/x11.rene.diff
> >
> >   
> 
> Patch updated, thanks!
> 
> > I haven't tested the patch on a live system (!), I assume the
> > technical content is correct ;-)
> >
> >   
> 
> I can assure you, I've consumed all this 'advice' myself  trying to
> upgrade / install 7.4 on more than a couple of systems ;)

Looks good, I remember having some of these issues myself when
I did the upgrade.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes