From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 19:21:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5631065687 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:21:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7B68FC1B for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:21:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.213.128] (jn@stealth.jnielsen.net [74.218.226.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n2VJL9D1094264; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:21:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:21:09 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903311521.09447.lists@jnielsen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Tsu-Fan Cheng Subject: Re: too many video drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:21:12 -0000 On Tuesday 31 March 2009 03:08:14 pm Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > I am rebuilding ports and realize that i have too many input/video > drivers for x-win installed. i know i need nv driver since my graphic > card is from nvidia, and i want to deinstall all others. but i am not > sure if its safe to do so, e.g. i am confused by "xf86-video-chips" > since i don't know what kind of "chip" that stands for. can someone > tell me which are basics and which are safe to remove? thanks!! Obviously you should keep mouse, keyboard and whatever driver(s) you actually plan to use (nv in this case). It's also a good idea to keep vesa as a fallback option. I habitually also keep the dummy driver though I'm not sure what it's used for. Everything else is fair game and should be safe to remove. "Chips" is (or was) a video card vendor so if you don't have such a card it's safe to remove as well. JN