Re: Splitting packages of video drivers in XF4.2 ?
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.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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