[PATCH] xfree86: Redact mention of the VideoAdaptor section

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 09:34:17 PDT 2011


This is, in principle, used to bind non-GPU Xv devices to Screens.  Even
if anyone is actually using that feature, which is rather doubtful,
documenting it this badly is just bad form and will only confuse users.

Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
---
 hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man |    9 ---------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man b/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man
index 4bec316..cff8607 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man
+++ b/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man
@@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ The section names are:
 .BR "InputDevice    " "Input device description"
 .BR "InputClass     " "Input class description"
 .BR "Device         " "Graphics device description"
-.BR "VideoAdaptor   " "Xv video adaptor description"
 .BR "Monitor        " "Monitor description"
 .BR "Modes          " "Video modes descriptions"
 .BR "Screen         " "Screen configuration"
@@ -1382,10 +1381,6 @@ Some of the latter are described below in the section about the
 .B Screen
 section, and they may also be included here.
 
-.SH "VIDEOADAPTOR SECTION"
-Nobody wants to say how this works.
-Maybe nobody knows ...
-
 .SH "MONITOR SECTION"
 The config file may have multiple
 .B Monitor
@@ -1856,10 +1851,6 @@ name is not specified, a default configuration is used.
 Currently the default configuration may not function as expected on all
 platforms.
 .TP 7
-.BI "VideoAdaptor  \*q" xv\-id \*q
-specifies an optional Xv video adaptor description to be used with this
-screen.
-.TP 7
 .BI "DefaultDepth  " depth
 specifies which color depth the server should use by default.
 The
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1.7.4.2



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