Re: why isn't XFree86 started with the -config option

[Steve Bergman <steve rueb com>]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 18:26, Kristof vansant wrote:
> why not use XFree86 -config
> is it unstable?

Is this what you are talking about?


-configure
When this option is specified, the X  server  loads  all  video
driver  modules,  probes for available hardware, and writes out
an initial XF86Config(5x) file  based  on  what  was  detected.
This  option currently has some problems on some platforms, but
in most cases it is a good way to bootstrap  the  configuration
process.   This option is only available when the server is run
as root (i.e, with real-uid 0).