Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r4161 - trunk/debian/xorg/debian
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 07:53:00AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 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.
I'm considering setting an arch-specific variable for the fail-safe option,
like we currently do to define the various -all packages. It's not likely
for etch, but it might be helpful in the future. What do you think?
- David Nusinow
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