On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 01:46, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > -----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)?
The default path is hardcoded, but you can override it with any number of paths in the files section, man XF86Config-4. > Anyway, this would not work anyway because the module names are equal and I > guess that XFree will prefer /usr/X11R6 to anything else. It will traverse the paths in the order you specify them (or maybe in the reverse order? :). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]