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From: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:30:38AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > FWIW, Option "ModulePath" in xorg.conf lets you more or less do this;
> > the usual approach is to install your new server + drivers into a
> > separate prefix.
> 
> The thing is, Xorg has - and I think for _very_ good reasons - deprecated 
> using xorg.conf at all. So most people don't even have one (I certainly 
> don't), and wouldn't know how to create one in the first place.

Most people don't know how to bisect the kernel, either. :)

xorg.conf hasn't at all been deprecated, beyond autoconf and
xorg.conf.d.  The goal was to ensure that no-one needed an xorg.conf _by
default_, which I can quite safely say we've since achieved, but
xorg.conf(.d) remains as the way to tell the server your non-default
requirements.

Anyway, badly OT here, so.

Cheers,
Daniel