Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 needs testers

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 10:50 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 09:08, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > 7. For x86 only, remove these video drivers: nsc, glint, tga, s3,
> > s3virge, rendition, neomagic, i740, cirrus, tseng, trident, chips, apm,
> > ark, cyrix, siliconmotion. I wasn't sure what was safe for other archs
> > and didn't want to play around without some more research.
> > 
> > Of those, the only questionable ones to me are s3, s3virge and
> > especially siliconmotion. I could see the latter being popular on
> > systems that would otherwise use the "minimal" flag.
> 
> After thinking about this a little, it occurred to me that for a truly
> minimal system, perhaps only the fbdev, vesa and vga drivers would be
> wanted.

That would definitely be cool.  Along the same lines, would there be
some way to compile these drivers outside of the xorg-x11 ebuild?  The
reason that I ask is USE="minimal" looks *perfect* for a GameCD, but
without some of the drivers, it would probably not work out too well.
Then again, I could just say that only cards that are supported via the
"nvidia-*" and "ati-drivers" are supported, which would make things much
easier... once ATI actually fixes their drivers to work with xorg 6.8.0,
that is... *rolleyes*

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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