On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 03:16:14AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:39:07PM +0200, Alain Schroeder wrote: > > Is there any plan to split all the drivers into their own package? > > Not at this time. I thought about it a long time ago when I first started > familiarizing myself with the XFree86 4 way of doing things, and rapidly > came to the conclusion that this could lead us to a nightmarishly complex > set of virtual packages. Consider that you need a driver for the card, > some font rasterizers, a lot of people want double-buffering, VESA DDC > chattering between the server and monitor, etc etc etc. > > There are boatloads of modules shipped in xserver-xfree86. > > Here's the big pro: > * ONE package for EVERYONE, regardless of the video hardware they have. > (Well, not quite. People left out in the cold by 4.x still have to use > old 3.x servers. Oh well. It will still be largely true.) > > Here's the big con: > * Size. Fortunately, while the package is huge now, it will get smaller > for official release because I'll be stripping it. Right now > everything is unstripped so I can get useful backtraces from people if > need be. > > > I´m just asking, because it´s likely, that we will have non-free > > x-server drivers... Well at least, if non-free still exists (I haven´t > > really followed that discussion). > > > > Or there are any other ideas about the nvidia and mga drivers out there? > > As I understand it, 3rd party modules have to pick a name that isn't > already in use by XFree86. Hence "nvidia" instead of XFree86's "nv". > > So I imagine people can just install xserver-module-nvidia (if and when > such a package exists) or whatever and edit their /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4)? > file appropriately.
Hello, ... not sure but it would also be usefull for making debs out of in-developpment drivers or other usch things that didn't got into the latest xfree used for the debian packages. Maybe a thingy using the diversion/alternative stuff (i don't know about it really) would permit to move the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/glint_drv.o out of the way and install the packages own in place ? Same would go for man page of the driver and some other documentation stuff. This way we can get third party/non-free/whatever drivers installed, and still have the benefit of having a lone xserver-xfree86 package. I suppose this kind of thing would only be real usefull for folk who know what they do with the package, and i don't know how well dpkg will handle a lot of such packages lying around. Also the non-free driver come with a kernel module for DRI. What about those. I hope this time i am not being too stupid, ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER
