HEADSUP: X.Org conversion

Thomas Dickey dickey at radix.net
Sat Jul 24 03:46:14 PDT 2004


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 at 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)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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