On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Ken Nakata wrote:

> 
> The only way I can think of is a dirty hack at best: add a few extra server 
> options so that you can override its default behavior.  I've been thinking 
> to add such an Just-do-what-I-say-'cause-I-know-what-I'm-doing kind of 
> option anyway, albeit not precisely for this purpose; I want to be able to 
> tell the server not to use some of the grf devices on my box so that it 
> won't choke on a video device that doesn't work quite well yet on NetBSD.  
> This feature would also be useful for, say, those SE/30 users with a dead 
> internal monitor and a working external one, etc (my SE/30's internal 
> monitor sometimes goes berzerk, too ;-).  I think I could add something else 
> to override the screen size as well.  The question is how do I do it, and I 
> haven't decided it yet.
> That is, whether I should implement a mechanism with which the server reads 
> a configuration file (a la XFree86), or I should just add command line 
> options to the server.
> 
> I'm open to any suggestion on this matter, so I'd appreciate if anyone could 
> give me one.
> 
	Given XFree86 supports NetBSD/i386 & Netbsd/sparc already, it
	might be a good idea to see if mac68k could be merged in...

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