Where is tiny xserver for VESA cards?

Grigory Batalov gbatalov at crystals.ru
Fri Apr 8 07:28:44 PDT 2011


On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
"ssgriffonuser at gmail.com" <ssgriffonuser at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ajax mentioned in a post the other day that the vesa, i810, and other versions of kdrive were removed because they were broken or inferior drivers.  If u are on linux u should use xfbdev.  I compiled it the other day and it was 4 meg.  If you end up with a larger binary, make sure to strip the debug symbols.

Thank you for suggestion, but doesn't Xfbdev require kernel framebuffer driver?
I have several cards those don't have stable fb driver, but work with Xvesa well.

> Could you clarify what is used in recent Xorg as a tiny xserver?
> I saw kdrive/vesa folder (which produced Xvesa binary) in
> server-1.5-branch, but it was removed later.
> 
> I'm interested in small footprint and easy usage, like
> Xvesa -screen 640x480x32 -mouse /dev/input/mice



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