Why libpciaccess separated from X server ?

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu Apr 21 07:33:01 PDT 2011


On 04/20/11 11:10 PM, Kevin Master wrote:
> Hello Freedesktop fellows:
> 
> I am now using a Linux distribution RedFlag6 on my PC which carries X server
> 1.7, after a while, I found the system carries a very low pciaccess library
> which version is 0.10.2.
> libpciaccess-0.10.2 have no vga arbiter function support at all. So I have been
> kept thinking why the X server developers decide to separate the libpciaccess.so
> out of the X server
> itself?
> This will certainly make some thing not working under special situation like I
> am currently running into.

If you can upgrade the X server, then you can upgrade libpciaccess, so I don't
see the problem.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System




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