[PULL to discuss] Remove kdrive, Xnest, and Xvfb

[Antoine Martin]

On 03/27/2012 06:59 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 16:55 -0700, Jamey Sharp wrote: 
>> 2012/3/26 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
>>> in other day I saw /usr/bin/xvfb-run is in use on building
>>> miro-4.0.6-2.fc16
>>>
>>> how we test X in a server without displays ?
>>
>> Use xf86-video-dummy with the Xorg DDX.
> 
> where is the code ? 
> I need some examples to understand what you are saying ! 
> 
> start a whole X with a xf86-video-dummy instead of Xvfb :1 ? 
https://xpra.org/Xdummy.html#usage

Antoine
(+1 for removing Xvfb)


>>> I use
>>> /usr/bin/Xvfb
>>>
>>> Xvfb :1 -fbdir /var/tmp/
>>> export DISPLAY=:1
>>> sdl-gnash  --screenshot 0 --screenshot-file $IMG.tmp -r1 -t1 $SWF
>>>
>>> kind of a flash ripper .
>>
>> xf86-video-dummy doesn't have an equivalent to -fbdir, but it looks
>> like you aren't actually making use of the mmap'd framebuffer in
>> /var/tmp/. So this case should work just fine with xf86-video-dummy
>> today as well.
>>
>> Jamey
>