Modular X.org and the Unichrome forks.

Donnie Berkholz spyderous at gentoo.org
Thu Dec 22 07:06:36 PST 2005


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Hugo Mills wrote:
|    Speaking as a (highly technical) user, removing Unichrome support
| is absolutely the *worst* thing you could do. Adding out-of-tree
| components to X.org is an absolute nightmare, in my experience. I have
| never managed to achieve it without a ground-up rebuild of X. On an
| EPIA ME6000, this takes a *very* long time, and completely messes up
| the package management on the machine.

It sounds like you're saying this with absolutely no experience of
modular X and how easy it is to just build another driver.

Thanks,
Donnie
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