WITH_NEW_XORG=yes -- failure

Ronald F. Guilmette rfg at tristatelogic.com
Tue Nov 6 05:19:27 UTC 2012


In message <50989423.5020509 at gmail.com>, 
matt <sendtomatt at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 11/05/12 15:19, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>
>> Isn't all of this NEW_XORG stuff eventually supposed to be become the
>> new "official" xorg stuff for FreeBSD?  If so, is anybody going to work
>> on fixing this, which appears to be a quite serious bug?
>>
>Personally, and with all due internet respect, I think it's not really a
>bug (in this case)...you do have two video cards with valid drivers. If
>you had one card and the correct driver, everything would be fine. If
>you had two cards and only the correct driver for the card you wanted,
>you would be fine. Since you had two cards and two correct drivers X
>-configure tried to setup both cards and exited when that failed.

Personally, and with all due internet respect, why should it have failed?

Cannot X run ``two headed''?  (I really thought that it could, but perhaps
I was mistaken.)

It is sometimes said that two heads are better than one, but perhaps not
in this case.


Regards,
rfg


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