On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:44:02PM +0200, Ville Syrj�l� wrote:
> 
> XDirectFB is an X server so no you can't load it with XFree86.

I understand now.  I thought the way XDirectFB worked, is that it just
added an a "hardware module" (i.e. to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/)
but I see now that it's a completely different Xserver.

> I'm not
> sure if you can build them together from the same source tree.

Not from the same host.def anyway.  The "#define XDirectFBServer YES"
precludes the building of the standard intel86 XFree86 server.

> At least
> with XFree86 3.x all hardware drivers were actually separate servers and
> I think they could all be built at the same time.

Right.

> Have you tried building with this? If all goes well you'll end
> up with two X servers: XFree86 and XDirectFB.

A complete tree build of XFree86 finished over night.  I have just
tried to simply add  "#define XDirectFBServer YES" to the host.def (in
my RPM/BUILD/XFree86-4.2.1 dir) and am doing a make World now.
Hopefully I get an XDirectFB that is compatible with the XFree86
environment that the RPM SPEC file I am using to build this all with
provides.

If I get the XDirectFB that I am looking for, then I could imagine
modifying the SPEC file much like the kernel SPEC files out there do
to build half a dozen different kernel packages which is simply
multiple complete builds with different configuration files (host.defs
in this case).

I will let y'all know how it goes.

b.

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Brian J. Murrell

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