On 01/23/2011 02:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> I am going to revert the changes for the configuration sections for now >> and leave the old in place with an added note. As far as the Mesa demos, >> the license is very permissive for at least the two we use. Not a big >> deal at all to drop them and a small Makefile into the Mesa source tree >> directly. Any objections to that, or is there some interest in the whole >> demos package? Thus far, we've only ever installed glxgears and glxinfo. > The whole demos package might be interesting, but whether it is included > in the book or not depends on the complexity. If it's easy, I suggest > adding it. Not really, it requires that GLEW is built (though that can be worked around), and again, until now, we've never installed any of the other demos. As far as xdemos is concerned, not much else interesting there. I think I'll just add the two we need back to MesaLib when I add talloc in a little bit. > I would prefer the configuration/testing page cover all of the needed > actions in a consolidated way. For example, in LFS I added building > GRUB to Chapter 6, but deferred the configuration to Chapter 8. In the > same way, a single final page about configuring and testing Xorg, > including demos. would be appropriate. Yeah, need to at least get C-A-B put back in, the first startx command, and testing of DRI as the first three sections on the page. > As a side note, I think there are some caveats if a user will want to > use the proprietary Nvidia drivers. IIRC, it had to do with the Module > section of the configuration (DRI) and Mesa. Since Nvidia cards are > quite common and users may decide to use the proprietary drivers, we may > want to add a line or two about that if there are conflicts. > > -- Bruce
I'll have to get my hands on an Nvidia device next weekend and see how much difficulty I have with it myself. Thanks for the suggestions. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
