Installing X

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Jens Rühmkorf <ruehmkorf at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE>:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> 
> > There exists (in base_N.N.tgz) a program xviddetect which tells me
> > which is the correct server, so the solution I use is to put the
> > line:
> >    xserver-`xviddetect -q`
> > into a package_config file.
> > [...]
> > The attached script does this job.
> 
> Cool idea to put it in the package_config file. Unfortunately this is the
> "easy" part ;), I guess. 
> 
> If there is no way of either specifying a suitable, general purpose
> XF86Config or generating a client-speficic one during install, this has to
> be done using classes, cfengine etc. anyway. anXious does not seem to be
> feasible for this yet, I suppose. 

I made a HIGH_RES and a LOW_RES file and am defining my computers
with these classes. Then the only remaining problems are "small"
things like keyboard and mouse. You can get cfengine to hack them
about relatively easily. I've not got all this perfect yet, but
I'll post back when I do.

Sadly I'm away for the next fortnight but I'll be thinking about
it anyway!

Cheerio,

Andrew Stribblehill