Ahh! I hadn't checked any of the work in 4.4 before I came up with this idea. This is wonderful.
What about in the case of a broken driver where the X server is unable to start? One of the main problems I've seen Is when somebody breaks their X config, either by running some driver installation (nvidia-installer yay!) or recompiling their kernel and leaving off a third party module results in a non working X. Users would definitely would rather be at a 640x480 display running in 16 colors than a login console prompt. Or at least this is my assumption: power users are more than welcome to do whatever they want. On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 14:06, David Dawes wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
