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On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 12:31, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 10:50 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > After thinking about this a little, it occurred to me that for a truly |
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> > minimal system, perhaps only the fbdev, vesa and vga drivers would be |
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> > wanted. |
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> That would definitely be cool. Along the same lines, would there be |
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> some way to compile these drivers outside of the xorg-x11 ebuild? The |
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> reason that I ask is USE="minimal" looks *perfect* for a GameCD, but |
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> without some of the drivers, it would probably not work out too well. |
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> Then again, I could just say that only cards that are supported via the |
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> "nvidia-*" and "ati-drivers" are supported, which would make things much |
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> easier... once ATI actually fixes their drivers to work with xorg 6.8.0, |
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> that is... *rolleyes* |
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In theory, yeah if you build xorg with USE=sdk. See ati-gatos, |
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linuxwacom or synaptics ebuilds for examples of things that take |
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advantage of this. In reality, some of the drivers are problably broken |
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WRT compiling against the SDK. Only way to know is to test. But having |
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only the binary drivers as options is a good possibility since they're |
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also the only ones that work with a number of recent GameCD candidate |
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games. |
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By the way, most games use fonts. So having them would be a plus. But |
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it's worth testing just how bad the misc fonts look, I guess. I'm |
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working on having them be the only ones built with "minimal." |
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I'm sure ATI will support 6.8 soon enough, unless they want everyone |
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running to Nvidia. |
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