[PATCH] Introduce Xorg 7.4 to the X11 configuration section

Rene Ladan rene at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 21 16:09:07 UTC 2009


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

I haven't tested the patch on a live system (!), I assume the
technical content is correct ;-)

Regards,
Rene
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