On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On 2008-Oct-17 10:32:41 -0400, Eitan Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Here is the list I generated from pkg_info when I was first able to run > >the X server. If anyone is able to run "startx" with fewer ports please > >let me know. > > You should be able to get by without any gnome baggage. > > >How can I handle the video drivers? Not all systems need all drivers. > >I don't want to depend on xorg-drivers, however you can't get X to start > >without a video driver. Can some kind of check be done in the Makefile? > > Unless you actually install all the drivers, go through the > configuration process to work out which ones to use and then uninstall > the rest, the best you could probably do is to run pciconf and use a > config file to map PCI IDs to potential video drivers. Some things to > keep in mind with this approach are: > - pciconf has to run as root and so has to be inside the su part. > - Some video cards have different potential drivers (eg Intel, nVIDIA). > - People may have multiple, different video cards present. > - Several drivers are virtual (eg dummy, fbdev) Or you can just depend on xorg-drivers, and let people select the drivers they want if they use ports. They will get 8 of them (instead of the whole bunch) if they use packages, this will be down to 5 once the ports are upgraded to xorg 7.4. -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
