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Missing parse-xf86config "breaks" login.app [was: Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop]



On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:48:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 06:05:43PM +0400, Konstantin Kivi wrote:
> > I also had to add
> >      Set_LCDClk  40
> > to the Device section. Be aware that parse-xf86config
> > used in /etc/init.d/xdm doesn't unserstand it
> 
> Be aware that because of problems like this, parse-xf86config has been
> eliminated from recent XFree86 packages.  Potato will ship without it.

For what it's worth (very little :) this breaks the automatic install
for login.app.  Personally it's no big deal to edit /etc/inittab by
hand, but a newbie might find this troublesome.

Perhaps the lines should be added to /etc/inittab but commented out.
Should I file a wishlist bug?

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