Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:57:04 +0000 | From | Daniel Stone <> | Subject | Re: Making Xorg easier to test (was Re: [git pull] drm request 3) |
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:30:38AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Daniel Stone wrote: > > FWIW, Option "ModulePath" in xorg.conf lets you more or less do this; > > the usual approach is to install your new server + drivers into a > > separate prefix. > > The thing is, Xorg has - and I think for _very_ good reasons - deprecated > using xorg.conf at all. So most people don't even have one (I certainly > don't), and wouldn't know how to create one in the first place.
Most people don't know how to bisect the kernel, either. :)
xorg.conf hasn't at all been deprecated, beyond autoconf and xorg.conf.d. The goal was to ensure that no-one needed an xorg.conf _by default_, which I can quite safely say we've since achieved, but xorg.conf(.d) remains as the way to tell the server your non-default requirements.
Anyway, badly OT here, so.
Cheers, Daniel
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