Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r4161 - trunk/debian/xorg/debian
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 22:30 -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:47:11AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:18 -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > * Move the depends on xserver-xorg-(input/video)-all to a recommends. Just
> > > depend on the pseudopackages. The recommends also | -vesa for video, and
> > > -kbd and -mouse for -input. We duplicate the recommendation for
> > > xserver-xorg-input-all to handle the two different input packages we need.
> > > This is to deal with issues in which aptitude can't install the -all
> > > packages, so it just picks something random. This gives it some hints,
> > > hopefully at least guaranteeing that -vesa, -kbd, and -mouse are
> > > installed.
> >
> > The vesa driver doesn't work on most non-x86 machines...
>
> Well, that option is meant to be a failsafe when the xserver-xorg-video-all
> package fails to install for whatever reason. Do you have any ideas for a
> better failsafe option that could cover us better across more arches?
There is no single 'failsafe' driver. Where vesa doesn't work, fbdev
might (ignoring its current ShadowFB breakage...), but in some cases
even vga or something else might be necessary.
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