[RFC][PATCH 0/6] towards the dietary: removing libpciaccess dependency from Xorg

[Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki)]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:03:35PM +0200, ext Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Jul 14, 09 20:06:37 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> > (take a breath; this set comes with radical changes)
> 
> I'm not completely familiar with the code changed, and looked at it only
> briefly - and it looked like this removes static configuration
> completely.

Nop. It removes only the code that generates a config file. It's the ugliest
thing ever: it starts the X server, probe some devices and then exists. Sigh.

So even with the patch applied, the static way, using xorg.conf, continues
there working.

(yeah, the description on the patch is not clear enough. Sorry.)


> If that is the case, that's a no-go ATM, because we don't have any other
> way e.g. to configure the framebuffer size for now (for drivers that are
> not capable of resizing on the fly, i.e. all but intel (maybe radeon?)).
> And we probably need static config for nontrivial multiscreen setups,
> until all login managers know how to do that dynamically.
> 
> OTOH if this doesn't touch static config, please ignore :-)

ignored :)

 
> > idiot and not the role of the X server, so lets do it right (BTW, I'm curious
> > to know which applications are using this probe methods and eventually help
> > fix those applications properly).
> 
> I'm unsure ATM, but I think that sax2 still uses 'X -probe'. OTOH we
> will deprecate sax2 for openSUSE 11.2 anyway...
> In any case, this is something not to be applied unless we want to bump
> at least the minor version number.

nods.

 
> As always, these are my 2 cents. Mine!

Okay, thanks Matthias.


            Tiago