[PULL to discuss] Remove kdrive, Xnest, and Xvfb

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Mon Mar 26 16:59:37 PDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 16:55 -0700, Jamey Sharp wrote: 
> 2012/3/26 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
> > in other day I saw /usr/bin/xvfb-run is in use on building
> > miro-4.0.6-2.fc16
> >
> > how we test X in a server without displays ?
> 
> Use xf86-video-dummy with the Xorg DDX.

where is the code ? 
I need some examples to understand what you are saying ! 

start a whole X with a xf86-video-dummy instead of Xvfb :1 ? 


> > I use
> > /usr/bin/Xvfb
> >
> > Xvfb :1 -fbdir /var/tmp/
> > export DISPLAY=:1
> > sdl-gnash  --screenshot 0 --screenshot-file $IMG.tmp -r1 -t1 $SWF
> >
> > kind of a flash ripper .
> 
> xf86-video-dummy doesn't have an equivalent to -fbdir, but it looks
> like you aren't actually making use of the mmap'd framebuffer in
> /var/tmp/. So this case should work just fine with xf86-video-dummy
> today as well.
> 
> Jamey

-- 
Sérgio M. B.



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