Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:24:11 +0100 From: "Florent Thoumie" <flz@xbsd.org> To: "Peter Jeremy" <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg - minimal Message-ID: <a01628140810181024q48448162r7792ed41a55e42d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081018034805.GA1055@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <48F7DAD1.9000103@gmail.com> <20081017010512.GC71472@mavetju.org> <48F8A209.8020307@gmail.com> <20081018034805.GA1055@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>wrote: > On 2008-Oct-17 10:32:41 -0400, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> > wrote: > >Here is the list I generated from pkg_info when I was first able to run > >the X server. If anyone is able to run "startx" with fewer ports please > >let me know. > > You should be able to get by without any gnome baggage. > > >How can I handle the video drivers? Not all systems need all drivers. > >I don't want to depend on xorg-drivers, however you can't get X to start > >without a video driver. Can some kind of check be done in the Makefile? > > Unless you actually install all the drivers, go through the > configuration process to work out which ones to use and then uninstall > the rest, the best you could probably do is to run pciconf and use a > config file to map PCI IDs to potential video drivers. Some things to > keep in mind with this approach are: > - pciconf has to run as root and so has to be inside the su part. > - Some video cards have different potential drivers (eg Intel, nVIDIA). > - People may have multiple, different video cards present. > - Several drivers are virtual (eg dummy, fbdev) Or you can just depend on xorg-drivers, and let people select the drivers they want if they use ports. They will get 8 of them (instead of the whole bunch) if they use packages, this will be down to 5 once the ports are upgraded to xorg 7.4. -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer
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