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  • From: "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] First attempt at xorg-modular build
  • Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:36:21 +0100

Eric Sandall wrote :
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, George Sherwood wrote:
> > With help from ruskie today, I installed xorg-modular and was able to
> > get it up and running.
> >
> > Overall the installation went very smoothly. A few of the default
> > selections for options could be better and I think that ruskie has
> > fixed most of them already. In particular you need to select to
> > build xorg-server and select to build with setuid. You also have to
> > remember to separately cast the drivers that you need. In my case
> > vmware (video driver), keyboard, mouse.
>
> Perhaps the profile packages should optionally depend on all of the
> drivers?

Acctually NO... there will be a confgi_query_multi for that so that
ppl can chose their drivers and fonts

>
> > Getting the fonts working correctly took a little bit of work since
> > you have to manually select which font spells to cast, but it seems to
> > be okay now, but not quite optimal.
>
> Perhaps the profile packages should optionally depend on all of the
> fonts?
> <snip>
>
> -sandalle
>
> --
> Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
> eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
> http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
> http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
>
>



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