Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r4161 - trunk/debian/xorg/debian
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 20:57 -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> 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:
> > > >
> > > > 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?
Certainly sounds better than just vesa. :)
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