On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:41:45PM -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: >I've been thinking about how to make X more "userfriendly". > >Driver "nvidia,vesa" > >Is a line like this possible, or could it be a good suggestion to >implement? It would allow fallback from one driver to another in case >the first doesn't function. One of the main complaints I've been hearing >from various people I'm working with is how X doens't "Just Work". In >that you can plug it in, and see a screen. Certainly most of this is up >to the fault of the packager, but some of it is because they'res some >things the packager would need to work around that are difficult, such >as detecting that X failed to launch, so switching it to vesa mode and >trying again.
The automatic configuration support (that is, the ability to use the XFree86 server without an XF86Config file) that I added for 4.4 has a fallback mechanism something like this. It tries the auto-detected chipset-specific driver first (if there is one), then falls back to the vesa, fbdev, or vga drivers. I have since made some improvements to the fallback mechanism, but they were done too late to get into 4.4. The main goal of this automatic configuration is that a user can get a usable screen up and running without any manual intervention. David -- David Dawes developer/release engineer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
