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Lähettäjä: Didier Kryn
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Vastaanottaja: dng
Aihe: Re: [DNG] An alternative to renaming [was Re: Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev net.ifnames]
Le 21/08/2017 à 16:48, Rick Moen a écrit :
> Quoting Didier Kryn (kryn@???):
>
> [mdev:]
>
>> Sure it would be helpful :-) AFAIK X11 is able to configure
>> itself automatically without a config file when libudev provides it
>> with an interface to query device properties, and without this
>> library it is necessary to provide a config file.
> At the risk of committing heresy, there's nothing all _that_ bad about,
> on new Linux systems or ones where you suddenly switched in a whole new
> video hardware system, having to generate an /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file
> using 'Xorg -configure' (which by default outputs ./xorg.conf.new).
>

     Sorry, Rick, but I don't understand how it is possible that, on one 
hand, it needs libudev to configure itself, and, on the other hand, it 
is able to generate its config file without it. Can you explain this 
paradox?


     Didier