Re: Splitting packages of video drivers in XF4.2 ?
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Am Samstag, 27. April 2002 23:19 schrieben Sie:
> 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.
To the above: Where are those paths defined? There is nothing in /etc/X11
that specifies something in /usr/local. Maybe they are compiled in (or even
hard-coded)?
Anyway, this would not work anyway because the module names are equal and I
guess that XFree will prefer /usr/X11R6 to anything else.
Well, dpkg-divert works alright, I just did not know about that feature of
dpkg (and how to search for a feature you do not even know the word for?).
Hendrik Sattler
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