From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 20:22:40 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 B190A106568D for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:22:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raszobbi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f167.google.com (mail-fx0-f167.google.com [209.85.220.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC4F8FC18 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:22:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raszobbi@gmail.com) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so2508803fxm.43 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:22:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XZet3KBWCgysJkSyvDzOu9yLULheVwBcCpux2osZ1hk=; b=gjjwPrrQvJQwbNc6YuXGi21VQXiwQPZIcna6PC+om10LQ8JoPEs4NSLjj40q9QhwGG leyipGV+jiIrJhr2K8Tqhrk/ByBAExyrTNTRuS1PGibqk7+Nls5EvE7nKWRWXDkAL0SB xL6TyMLL0IP/aMJh+g2ritGsZzOifNYinOhIY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PXIyERkBiXSwK9xRAKChmZUJQRpQQnJO+T+6wSwPGJw3kVFU5KkNj3UZ2l0qxLuIcZ UT5K7th8D+hGdRApPCc9vUMyQbaArnm8/dqFaaBD3Xfopcn+4NdRj7Qg/LNG2cN7dHDX tajUtUqjDB2F0tXY2ZQu2de7Ie0CCk+VFEt/I= Received: by 10.223.111.134 with SMTP id s6mr5469717fap.37.1238530959132; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:22:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ilras.barsh.com ([92.251.20.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d13sm90760fka.0.2009.03.31.13.22.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:22:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49D27B8A.6040900@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:22:34 +0200 From: rasz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090331) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200903311521.09447.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200903311521.09447.lists@jnielsen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 20:22:41 -0000 John Nielsen wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > also, once you removed/kept what you want, don't forget to reinstall xorg-drivers port (meta-port). i think you get complains about missing dependencies otherwise. (rebuild xorg-drivers with just the drivers you want)