On 04/14/2012 03:58 PM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > On 14-04-2012 09:58, 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 > Thanks, Armin, Andrew. > > I read from Armin, there is a new xorg-server, and think to upgrade it today. > For the other pieces I read from Armin, I will have a more careful look. > > The first message of this thread was intended to start this discussion, Xorg > is obviously important to many, knew Armin, Andrew and I think other editors > (DJ comes to mind) are always working on this. The book seems to be a little > behind in this subject, and if it is upgraded soon, it will be much easier to > do it again in a few months, when Xorg 7.7 will probably be released. > > Andrew, I agree in part with you, but instead of removing, perhaps commenting > would be the way to go. I need, in particular, the vmware drivers, and it was > nice having them commented in the lists. > > I will be willing to make tests, just please, ask me. > > First thing I will do is to trying to understand why those drivers did not > compile. >
I've finished checking drivers that I provided in a list with xorg-server 1.12.1 Theese fail to build xf86-video-apm-1.2.3 xf86-video-s3virge-1.10.4 xf86-video-tseng-1.2.4 xf86-video-rendition-4.2.4 xf86-video-sisusb-0.9.4 Fixes for those drivers are available in their git repositories at freedesktop.org. I see some possibilities: Comment them out for now and add a note that they are fixed in git (easiest method) Make git snapshots of those and add them to server (I've never seen any graphics card using those drivers) Create patches and patch drivers while building them (Could be difficult) Also, my nouveau snapshot build fails too since there has been new libdrm change that isn't available in current libdrm release. I've created new snapshot that can be built and uploaded it to LFS server. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.16+git20120322.tar.xz http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xf86-video-nouveau-0.0.16+git20120322.tar.xz.md5sum -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
