Splitting packages of video drivers in XF4.2 ?
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Hi,
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.
Sincerly...
Hendrik Sattler
PS: Actually, the problem that files get silently overwritten is also with
other files likes Lepieds' wacom_drv.o but it should not address a majority
of users.
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