How to run the X xserver in a chroot environment

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Tino Keitel<tino.keitel+xorg at tikei.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as the Intel driver is very fragile recently, I want to test it in a
> chroot environment, and keep the stable 2.4 driver in the normal
> system. This implies that I also keep an old version of the X server in
> the normal system. So I installed a chroot system. But HAL can not be
> used in a chroot, and without HAL, I get not input devices in the X
> server.

You can easily just install a temporary X to another location and use
it without chrooting. I think this is the way most of the developers
test X. You can even leverage most of the client side that's already
installed and just focus on server/drivers.

--
Dan