On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:53:46 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > > > Whereas everytime I wanted to do that with Xorg it was such a pain that > > I want to keep away from that mess. > > Actually, take it from me: Xorg is _pleasant_ to test these days. > > Ok, so that's partly compared to the mess it _used_ to be, but it's really > night and day. The whole build system was so incredibly baroque and heavy > that you really had to understand it deeply if you wanted to do anything > fancy. > > And the non-fancy alternative was to just build the whole thing, which > took _hours_ even on fast machines because the build system overhead was > near-infinite (I dunno, maybe parallel builds could be made to work, but > it took more brain-power than I could ever put into it). > > These days, there's a few dependencies you need to know about (I do agree > that from a user perspective the thing might have been made a bit _too_ > modular) but they are generally fairly trivial, and there are scripts to > download all the drivers and misc utilities needed. Just FYI for those following this thread; testing the server and 3D drivers really isn't too much trouble these days, you can even install everything into a separate path (I usually choose /opt-gfx-test); you just need to build libdrm, mesa, xserver and your video driver (along with an input driver or tw) in that order. Then just startx -- /opt/gfx-test/bin/Xorg and put something reasonable in .xinitrc. Full instructions at http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/BuildingX. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
