Re: Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-18 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, David Dawes wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:30:05AM +0300, Alexander Shopov wrote: > >> Back to the original point, the documentation of these options in the > >> driver man pages should match how they are handled by the individual > >> drivers. Specifically, the document

Re: Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-18 Thread David Dawes
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:30:05AM +0300, Alexander Shopov wrote: >> Back to the original point, the documentation of these options in the >> driver man pages should match how they are handled by the individual >> drivers. Specifically, the documented defaults may legitimately be >> different for

Re: Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-18 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:32:28PM -0400, David Dawes wrote: >On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:15:20PM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: >>On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:44:57 +0300, Alexander Shopov wrote: >>> >>>I checked driver man pages in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/*/*.man >>>Almost every driver impleme

Re: Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >> >I checked driver man pages in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/*/*.man >> >Almost every driver implements the options: >> >HWCursor, SWCursor however they are documented differently. >> >> Further, having two separate options is silly. It is a

Re: Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-17 Thread Alexander Shopov
Back to the original point, the documentation of these options in the driver man pages should match how they are handled by the individual drivers. Specifically, the documented defaults may legitimately be different for different drivers. I am not talking about the defaults but what HWCursor and S

Re: Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-17 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:15:20PM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: >On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:44:57 +0300, Alexander Shopov wrote: >> >>I checked driver man pages in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/*/*.man >>Almost every driver implements the options: >>HWCursor, SWCursor however they are documented

Re: Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-17 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Tim Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:44:57 +0300, Alexander Shopov wrote: > > > >I checked driver man pages in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/*/*.man > >Almost every driver implements the options: > >HWCursor, SWCursor however they are documented differently. >

Re: Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-17 Thread Tim Roberts
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:44:57 +0300, Alexander Shopov wrote: > >I checked driver man pages in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/*/*.man >Almost every driver implements the options: >HWCursor, SWCursor however they are documented differently. Further, having two separate options is silly. It i

Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-17 Thread Alexander Shopov
Hi guys, I checked driver man pages in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/*/*.man Almost every driver implements the options: HWCursor, SWCursor however they are documented differently. From an end user perspective I would like: 1. Them being the same throughout docs 2. Them being as explicit a