Bug 20742

Summary: [patch] xorg.conf man page - 'Device' no longer mandatory
Product: xorg Reporter: Bryce Harrington <bryce>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium Keywords: patch
Version: 7.3 (2007.09)   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
See Also: https://launchpad.net/bugs/261577
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments:
Description Flags
0001-X-boots-up-without-a-Device-identifier-don-t-need.patch
none
man_device_not_mandatory.patch
none
xorg.conf
none
Xorg.0.log none

Description Bryce Harrington 2009-03-18 21:10:42 UTC 
Created attachment 24027 [details] [review]
0001-X-boots-up-without-a-Device-identifier-don-t-need.patch

man xorg.conf states that the 'Device' identifier is required in the 'Screen' section, yet in reality X will default properly without it.  Attached patch updates man page.

c.f. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/261577
Comment 1 Corbin Simpson 2010-03-27 12:25:41 UTC 
Tagging patch; will triage later.
Comment 2 Bryce Harrington 2013-02-08 21:31:45 UTC 
Created attachment 74452 [details] [review]
man_device_not_mandatory.patch

Here's a more thorough patch.  This removes one more mention of the mandatoriness of this optional parameter.
Comment 3 Bryce Harrington 2013-02-08 23:20:44 UTC 
Created attachment 74454 [details]
xorg.conf

xorg.conf test case used to verify
Comment 4 Bryce Harrington 2013-02-08 23:21:08 UTC 
Created attachment 74455 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Log from verification
Comment 5 Timo Aaltonen 2013-02-15 08:30:24 UTC 
this is now fixed in master

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