On 14-04-2012 10:55, Armin K. wrote: > On 04/14/2012 02:58 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:49:11 +0100 >> "Armin K." wrote: >> >>> I needed to split xbitmaps from xorg applications since newer version is >>> in other directory than applications. Also, I think that we should not >>> modify xinit xsession directory, xorg people know what are they doing, >>> and we might use that directory for dbus and consolekit configuration. >>> As for drivers, I've removed all non i386/amd64 drivers from list since >>> LFS and BLFS are only meant for i386/amd64, plus I've added link to >>> nouveau driver and added synaptics driver into list. >> Should we remove the video drivers Fernando says don't compile? I've >> not tried compiling them as I don't have the relevant hardware. I think >> we should just have 6 video drivers: >> >> xf86-video-ati >> xf86-video-fbdev >> xf86-video-intel >> xf86-video-nouveau >> xf86-video-openchrome >> xf86-video-vesa >> >> I think that will cover almost everybody. >> >> Andy > Note that there are still older machines that can be used with new xorg. > For example, I have Matrox MGA card which uses xf86-video-mga driver, > and I can use xorg server 1.12 with that one. If you look at xorg ftp, > you will see most of those drivers are updated, so cards still exist. We > should not remove them, yet. Also, don't remove vmware video driver, > that is new 3D driver.
Just saw your post. The one I have sent before this agrees with you. -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
