some changes for (slightly) faster boot

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:20:25PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> I don't understand this; clearly if I have to use an azerty keyboard
> layout I'm screwed whether or not you set it on the system or just for
> my user.  How is this different from you setting azerty as the default
> in the Xorg conf file?

It proves that keyboard is a system setting.

> > Oh and perhaps with the video at a resolution your monitor can't handle.
> 
> At least with modern monitors it's my understanding the X server knows
> what the monitor supports (DDC or something?).  So the system could
> prevent a user from changing their preference to something invalid.
> Thus it becomes a preference rather than a setting.

It remains a system setting (or the range does), and that needs to be kept
by Kudzu attached to the hardware even when the hardware vanishes for a while.