You can always compile xorg-server via portage the way you wish to try it out. I recommend doing that to make sure it fixes what you want at the very least before requesting for a package to be changed for everybody using the distribution.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Mohan R <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 11:13 +0200, Joost Ruis wrote: > > Care to give some motivation why we should enable dmx on xorg-server? > > I'm trying start a gnome-os which is in a qcow2 image (built by > gnome-continuous). However, running it in qemu is very slow due to my > laptop's limited hardware. So, Instead of running it using Qemu, I did > some experiment with systemd-nspawn + nbd-server and successfully booted > gnome-os without using Qemu, but without X11. > > Starting gnome-session inside gnome-os with X server running in the host > machine is possible only if I run another X server in a seperate vt > (vt2). I cannot use Xephyr because gnome-session requires 3d > acceleration. > > I came to know that Xdmx is a proxy X server which can use a real X > server running in vt7. I think it is same like Xephyr with 3d > acceleration enabled. Thats why I tried to search for this tool, but > xorg-server package is missing this tool. > > I'm not sure whether Xdmx will suit my requirement, I never tried. But I > found that it is missing in Sabayon. Thats why I filed a Bug. > > Thanks, > Mohan R > > >
