On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:42:32PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:07:05PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > I'd like to kill it one day, but not today. All the options out there are > > pretty crap, so we only lose so much by keeping it around for now. Once I > > get Debian caught up, I really want to start work on letting X > > automagically choose the right things to do if the xorg.conf doesn't > > override it. > > > > That's at least a few months down the road though, since I obviously > > haven't even gotten to 7.0 yet. If I'm really lucky Jim Gettys will have > > put out a more concrete design for the hotplugging rewrite deal by then > > too, but I'm not counting on it. I want to chip away at the debconfage > > stuff until there's nothing left, but I think we need something until that > > time. > > Last I saw, Kristian Høgsberg had a prototype for it somewhere in > Bugzilla that mostly worked.
Yeah, I've got it on my hard drive but never had a chance to try it (that whole getting Xorg in Debian thing got in the way :-) I plan to take a more serious look at it once we're really caught up and well positioned for the future. > Some of the Intel guys (Charles > Johnston, I think it was? and Waldo Bastian, among others) are very > interested in moving the input and display autodetection and display > hotplugging forward, so hopefully that really gets moving at some > stage. I remember that discussion. I plan to go back and re-read it. Unfortunately, no one but Jim seemed interested in actually putting something together (I'm sure Waldo is insanely busy) so I'm kind of waiting on him. If something materializes I plan to hop right on it. If not, I'll start putting some code together and then bring it up on the upstream list when I have something real for people to play with. We can talk about it here first if you (or anyone else!) wants to work on it too. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
