Robert Persson wrote: >But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair the >performance of the system? Why not have a nice simple X-configurator that >does the job of the SuSE or mandrake equivalents? You could even unmerge it > >
To me this depends upon what level of X configurability you are talking about. 1. Do you want something for initial configuration, to recognize the graphics card, monitor, keyboard and mouse, and make a reasonable defaults to get those things working at a decent color depth and resolution? 2. Or do you want something that allows you to tweak and configure every possible setting of the graphics card, monitor timings, mouse sample rates, etc. For me, #1 is silly on a modern computer, because all of that can be detected and configured automatically. The X server can detect what graphics chip I have, how large my LCD screen is, what kind of USB mouse I have, etc. Autoconfiguration is the goal of "X -configure", and indeed you should be able to run X.org even *without* a configuration file and have it use sane defaults. Most users don't want to have to configure such basic details, whether it is in a GUI or not, just like they don't expect to tell the system how much memory is installed. I might want to adjust some of those settings, which is where something like #2 would be useful. But I doubt anyone could sanely do this for every possible setting on every possible driver including the proprietary ones. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
