Hi Dominik,
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:46:56AM -0800, Dominik Behr wrote:
[..snip..]
> XFree86 contains compiled in drivers for all PC graphics cards and that
> adds lots of bloat. Just by removing them (and input drivers except
> mouse) I slimmed XFree86 from 10 to 6 MB. Thats 4MB more for
> applications (and once I had computer with 64KB of memory)!
Some Mips boards have PCI slots, so these drivers are used there. The
drivers only are used when the card is present, so no memory is wasted.
As of 4.2.0 mips uses a dlopen-style loader(which causes some other
problems but it makes the XFree86 binary much smaller). A ELF style
loader is in the works.
>
> here is my host.def
> #define BuildServersOnly YES
> #define XF86CardDrivers newport
> #define XInputDrivers mouse void
> #define LinuxDistribution LinuxDebian
> #define BuildXF86DRI YES
> #define DoLoadableServer NO
> #define XFree86Devel YES
> #define MakeDllModules YES
> #define XF86Server YES
> #define XnestServer NO
> #define XVirtualFramebufferServer NO
> #define XprtServer NO
> #define XF86VgaHw NO
> #define XF1Bpp NO
> #define XF4Bpp NO
> #define BuildScreenSaverExt NO
> #define BuildPexExt NO
> #define BuildXinerama NO
> #define BuildGlxExt YES
>
> I suppose more stuff can be disabled to make it even smaller.
If you're interested in a smaller X then KDrive might be a good choice.
>
> I am now converting sgi hardware docs from postscript to PDF and I will
> read them and then try to help.
Welcome aboard.
-- Guido
