From: Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>
To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving xorg.conf to seperate .bb file/package
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:16:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gfeaei$6hf$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226484007.17085.150.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com>
On 12-11-2008 11:00, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 09:48 +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>> At the moment xorg.conf is handled within the xserver-xorg .bb file.
>>
>> As xorg.conf varies per machine this will effectively make xserver-xorg
>> machine specific which sort of defeats the purpose of a module xorg.
>>
>> My suggestion is to move xorg.conf out of xserver-xorg. Then add a
>> RRECOMMEND_${PN} = "xserver-xorg-conf" to xserver-xorg.
>>
>> Is this a sane plan?
>
> Yes, that sounds like a splendid plan. I would even hope that some
> (maybe most) machines can cope without having an xorg.conf at all
> nowadays.
With a machine using a plain framebuffer xorg.conf shouldn't be needed
(or empty) anymore, for other machines like omap based ones an xorg.conf
is needed to point to xf86-video-omapfb. So, yes, most machines in OE
can do without an xorg.conf :)
regards,
Koen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-12 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-12 9:48 [RFC] Moving xorg.conf to seperate .bb file/package Graeme Gregory
2008-11-12 10:00 ` Phil Blundell
2008-11-12 10:16 ` Koen Kooi [this message]
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