Thanks for clarifying! On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> On 03/03/15 10:55, Thisis theone wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Do you expect to run the X Window System? [yes] no >> Do you want the X Window System to be started by xdm(1)? [no] no >> >> Isn't this a contradiction? Or is it related to "machdep.allowaperture"? >> If >> "machdep.allowaperture" isn't needed anymore, why is it still in the >> install? >> > > there's only one kind of hw out there, right? > oh wait. :) > > At the moment, on i386/amd64, only radeon, intel and vesa can avoid the > xf86(4) driver, there are a lot of other X servers and non-Radeon/non-Intel > hw that can be handled by something better than vesa out there. > > The first question sets things up so X *could* be used (if needed). For > security reasons, this can't be changed after the system has fully booted. > The second determines if X should be started at boot, but X can certainly > be started post-boot. Two different things. > > Nick.
