Re: Universal Xorg configuration
Hello Fernando,
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 03:41:37PM -0300, Fernando M. Morgenstern wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first mail to this list and i'm asking this because i didn't
> found anything like it on the archives.
>
> My question is, why doesn't Debian Etch come with a "Universal Xorg
> Conf"? Something that is supposed to work on almost all computers. Example:
>
> Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
>
> And them a list of many mouse types (ps/2, USB, serial) already enabled
> and configured.
>
> I'm asking this because i have a board about Debian and lots of people
> who go there to get support are having problems with X, especially with
> mouse and Monitor refresh rates (this one i didn't found a suitable
> solution).
>
> Sorry about my English (not my native language).
Automagic configuration is something I have planned as a goal for the
etch+1 release. We could do significant changes right now, but I feel that
the time is too short from here to etch to introduce anything significant.
Also, upstream work such as input hotplugging and monitor hotplugging with
randr 1.2[0] will allow us a cleaner method of doing this than we currently
have.
Doing things like AllowMouseOpenFail by default introduces other bugs (see
the archives of this list for an example of a recent discussion of this
issue) so we don't want to introduce that by default. More sensible
autodetection mechanisms, particularly ones that don't require editing
xorg.conf, are more than welcome if you'd like to contribute code in this
area.
- David Nusinow
[0] I was at the gnome summit watching Keith demo this today, and let me
tell you guys, it's really hot. It'll probably land in 7.2 according to
discussions today, but having good driver support for it will take a while
so I don't think it's worth pushing for in Etch given our timeframe. Oh...
but how I want it. I'll post something about the summit meetup, which had a
number of X guys, a little later if people are interested.
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