On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 11:39, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > I have some kind of wish to discuss which would makes life much less hard for > users of non-Debian-files: > > It is fact that not all graphics hardware runs with the drivers supplied with > XF4.x, some examples are: > some NVidia cards (if you want any acceleration at all) > Matrox cards (if you need the mga_hal, e.g. for DRI) > 3Dfx-V3 on earlier XFree version (the YUV support) > maybe others, too > > The problem is: most of those drivers (best example is Matrox) simply replace > some original files in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules. As those are not marked and > config files (and they are no config files and this is no_ request to make > them), they silently get overwritten. > The surprise is then on a non-funtional X on restart :( > > I think the probably best solution would be to split off the video cards > drivers into one extra package, only keeping generic drivers in > xserver-xfree86.
You don't have to overwrite package-controlled files in this case; the X server supports several module paths, just put them in /usr/local/X11R6 or wherever. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
