[ My appologies for my previous message with no body. It was a local mail client burp. ]
I want to build XDirectFB. But my quesion is, is building XDirectFB mutually exclusive of building XFree86 for native display hardware? To explain a bit further. I have an XFree86 source rpm file. It is used to build a set of XFree86 packages that have hardware drivers for the array of hardware that XFree86 supports. Other than a bunch of patching and enhancements (like additional hardware support, font support, etc.) , it builds a host.def file and then runs make World. Can I simply "add" to this build so that directfb is just another "hardware module" or would I have to have a separate build that built an XDirectFB-only XFree86 package? I am currently doing a test build (no XDirectFB modifications yet) of the SRPM to make sure it's good but once that is done, I want to try building the same XFree86 packages, with the directfb module included. I have modified the SPEC file to apply the patch, and put the requisite hw and config files in place. It also adds: #define XDirectFBServer YES to the bottom of the host.def file. Will this cause the XFree86 build to build the directfb "hardware module" in addition to all of the others it would normally build for an intel86 environment or is this just not going to work the way I am hoping it will? Once this is all done, is it simply a matter of changing the XF86Config-4 file's "Device" Section parameter "Driver" to "directfb" to get this all working? Or am I totally missing the mark here? You might ask why I am going to all this trouble to get XDirectFB to build with an existing XFree86 RPM. Ideally, I would like to get my Linux distro vendor (Mandrake) to accept all of this DirectFB stuff into their distribution and continue to support it as new releases happen (and I don't have to continue to maintain it here on my boxes). Being able to support XDirectFB with their existing XFree86 packages would go a long way to convincing them that this is a good thing, or benign in the least. Thanx, b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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