User talk:Alvin rxg

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About configuring X in the Beginners' Guide:

You only need to reboot for proprietary drivers, which are linked to rather than covered in the guide. You also only need configuration for those proprietary drivers (and nouveau, but we cover that earlier). If you think we should cover them in the Beginners' Guide, you can bring it up in the section(s) on them in the talk page.

Xorg -configure is useless now that input devices are handled via hotplugging and all (supported) drivers other than nouveau will be autoloaded. It adds a bunch of useless entries that aren't used (font stuff, modules, layout, input devices).

The Configure X section is only there for the non-english keyboard InputClass section since that's something required to get X working as expecting - the beginners' guide isn't meant to give people a bunch of customization options, just a working system. Xorg is linked to for people want to do stuff like tweak drivers or dpi.

We don't want to duplicate information across articles, and we also don't want to give people incomplete/inferior information when we can link them to another page that fully explains something.

If you have problems with Xorg auto-configuration, you should report a bug.

thestinger 22:20, 10 December 2010 (EST)


btw, I meant Xorg, our Xorg page. We cover all the optional config there in detail.

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