On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 01:39:57PM +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote: >There's a tweak for xf86cfg Cards database at >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/32121 > >I wonder if such change still makes sense to be submitted to Bugzilla or is >xf86cfg rather deprecated wrt newer autoconfigure methods.
Anything that over-specifies static configuration data (as the out-of-date Cards database does) should be avoided. Such things should be limited to exceptions/workarounds and user/system preferences. While the utilties that use the Cards database continue to be used, it may be useful to eliminate the unnecessary data in the Cards database. A patch that does this would be welcome. Moving forward though, exceptions/workarounds, where possible, should be fixed in the drivers so that they no longer need to be specified, and should be added to the xfree86.cfg file with a version-specific rule. David -- David Dawes X-Oz Technologies www.XFree86.org/~dawes www.x-oz.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
