X.org configuration in sysinstall
Jun Su
junsu at delphij.net
Wed Aug 25 08:48:40 PDT 2004
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?
>
I even runs XOrg without doing any manually config. Its auto-config
system is very useful. I suggest we can use
usr/bin/X11R5/bin/getconfig.pl to generate an initial config before
users begin config.
Jun
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