<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">yes, sure I can compile and install the newer libpciaccess library.<br>But my question is that why do the X server developers want libpciaccess.so separated from the X server.<br><br>Any good reason to do this ?<br><div> </div>Best Regards<br><br><div>Kevin<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Kevin Master <kevinliuwt@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> xorg@lists.freedesktop.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, April 21, 2011 10:33:01 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Why libpciaccess separated from X server ?<br></font><br> On 04/20/11 11:10 PM, Kevin Master wrote:<br>> Hello Freedesktop fellows:<br>> <br>> I am now using a Linux distribution RedFlag6 on my PC which carries X server<br>> 1.7, after a while, I found the system carries a very low pciaccess library<br>> which version is 0.10.2.<br>> libpciaccess-0.10.2 have no vga arbiter function support at all. So I have been<br>> kept thinking why the X server developers decide to separate the <a target="_blank" href="http://libpciaccess.so">libpciaccess.so</a><br>> out of the X server<br>> itself?<br>> This will certainly make some thing not working under special situation like I<br>> am currently running into.<br><br>If you can upgrade the X server, then you can upgrade libpciaccess, so I don't<br>see the problem.<br><br>-- <br> -Alan Coopersmith- <a ymailto="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com" href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a><br> Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System<br><br></div></div></div> </div></body></html>