Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

baslinux - Re: [BL] Xvesa

baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Baslinux mailing list

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Xvesa
  • Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:57:28 -0800

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:45:51AM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > I'm still trying to get my plastic rodent to work, and
> > thought it would be wise to compare my debian xconfig
> > and my BL Xconfig
>
> There is no connection between them. BL3 uses Xvesa
> with a dummy Xconfig. Debian (I assume) uses a proper
> Xserver, with a real /etc/XF86Config.
>
> As I suggested before, installing a proper Xserver will
> probably be beneficial. Xvesa is a rough-and-ready cludge
> designed to work (mostly) on a variety of hardware. It
> may be the smallest, most universal way to run X, but it
> is often not the best way.

Okay. But I'd rather spend my time learning how to display and
manipulate images without X, actually. X seems to be a trap for
tiny linux users. First it's 6M for a 'real' xserver, then one
library after another for every X application.

On my debian OS, booting up my _minimal_ X more than triples my
memory footprint (free).

Lee





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page