Xorg error messages are poor.

Rocco Stanzione grasshopper at linuxkungfu.org
Thu Mar 30 18:50:18 BST 2006


On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:19, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 30.03.2006, 09:38 -0600 schrieb Rocco Stanzione:
> > If we wait for Xorg, yeah, it's probably years off if it'll come at
> > all.
>
> (referring to hotplugging)
>
> Please don't start adding a pseudo-work around which is in fact
> functionality at the wrong level. The X.Org team is really working hard
> to satisfy requests for desktop technology, but they have limited
> resources. You could help them best by contacting the team and asking
> how you can help out, after investigating the mailing list archives and
> available papers on the issue, instead of pushing hardware detection
> wrappers downstream.

I didn't know and am pleasantly surprised to hear that there are any plans to 
do anything like this on the xorg end.  I certainly don't mean to make 
unnecessary work for us or to cast unjust aspersions on the awesome work 
being done by the xorg folks.

Rocco Stanzione  



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