Re: [gentoo-dev] feature request for X ebuild

[Dan Armak <ermak@netvision.net.il>]

On Friday 13 July 2001 23:07, you wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:44:55PM -0700, Taras Glek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > X has several drivers that are not perfect and some just dont work on
> > stuff like my laptop. However there are third party projects that come up
> > with superior drivers and for some reason release them outside the tree.
> > In particual the gatos ati drivers and the savage drivers are what I'm
> > interested in.
> > Could you added an option to the X ebuild, something like USE="gatos" or
> > USA=savage so it downloads and compiles with alternate drivers.
> >
> > http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html   <--savage driver
> > http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/  <-- i belive the updated ati driver
> > lives there...the url isnt working for me at the moment
>
> This is a good idea; any takers who want to work on a new version of the
> xfree ebuild?
>
> Best Regards,

BTW: we might finally incorporate the nvidia drivers as well.

Dan Armak