Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:14:51PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:23:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Many video cards require XFree 4.3.x or above. They require agpgart in the
> > > kernel. They require iwconfig and other wireless tools. There are a whole
> >
> > Tell me, you seriously think that there is a libc5 program still around
> > that uses DRI ? Hell, libc5 was abandoned well before DRI even existed.
>
> I'm not talking about DRI programs; I'm talking about just basic support.
Yes, i suppose you mean the i810 drivers and co, which need the dri
infrastructure and agpgart to do 2D stuff. That said, i suppose the
older vesa driver works as well on these, not sure though.
And anyway, i believe the best solution is to run a libc5 chroot inside
a normal install, and thus using the libc5 xlibs library, but a normal X
server and kernel. I am not entierly sure if this works as is, but in
the worst case, you could try to setup some kind of pseudo network link
between the normal root and the chroot, and pipe the X protocol
information trough that. I really am not familiar with chroot, but X
should allow you to do many things.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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