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Posted: May 12 2005,16:28

I was wondering if it were possible to make the xfree86 package a one-click kinda thing. I know it's pretty easy to make it work just wondering if it could be made easier.

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Posted: May 12 2005,17:13

I think the only way to make it one-click is if there was a post-install script feature in mydsl, which there isn't. Another issue is that Xfree configuration is specific to a user's hardware...different monitors, keyboards, video cards, mice on every system. There's no way for the package to know what settings to use.

However, Xvesa has a default setup in DSL, which i suppose could be carried over to Xfree. That at least could let the user start off with something basic which could be modified at his convenience.

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Posted: May 13 2005,11:31

I haven't had to configure xfree86 in other distributions, so I assume that there's some kind of a detection/configuration script already in place on those systems. Would it be possible to adapt the work that's already been done in those scripts into a dsl package that focuses on most common configurations?

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Posted: May 15 2005,04:10

Someone recently(ish) mentioned that they were working on the auto-detect/configure tool, can't remember who or what the details were, but looked like there could possibly be movement in that area...

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Posted: May 15 2005,04:13

Quote (mikshaw @ May 12 2005,12:13)

However, Xvesa has a default setup in DSL, which i suppose could be carried over to Xfree. That at least could let the user start off with something basic which could be modified at his convenience.

Not likely.

Kdrive (Xvesa Xfbdev) is configured completly by command-line switches, while Xfree is controlled by a static text file.

Take a look at your .xserverrc while running Xvesa to see what I mean.

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