-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 27. April 2002 23:19 schrieben Sie: > On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 11:39, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > I have some kind of wish to discuss which would makes life much less hard > > for users of non-Debian-files: > > > > It is fact that not all graphics hardware runs with the drivers supplied > > with XF4.x, some examples are: > > some NVidia cards (if you want any acceleration at all) > > Matrox cards (if you need the mga_hal, e.g. for DRI) > > 3Dfx-V3 on earlier XFree version (the YUV support) > > maybe others, too > > > > The problem is: most of those drivers (best example is Matrox) simply > > replace some original files in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules. As those are not > > marked and config files (and they are no config files and this is no_ > > request to make them), they silently get overwritten. > > The surprise is then on a non-funtional X on restart :( > > > > I think the probably best solution would be to split off the video cards > > drivers into one extra package, only keeping generic drivers in > > xserver-xfree86. > > You don't have to overwrite package-controlled files in this case; the X > server supports several module paths, just put them in /usr/local/X11R6 > or wherever.
To the above: Where are those paths defined? There is nothing in /etc/X11 that specifies something in /usr/local. Maybe they are compiled in (or even hard-coded)? Anyway, this would not work anyway because the module names are equal and I guess that XFree will prefer /usr/X11R6 to anything else. Well, dpkg-divert works alright, I just did not know about that feature of dpkg (and how to search for a feature you do not even know the word for?). Hendrik Sattler -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8yzg8zvr6q9zCwcERAiUQAJ42DIB7dfKjYXR/5sqcEVfpsYY0uwCgh10e NG6L9XfjwqUyInqKbsOxDCo= =1xUU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]