I wanted to have the driver for my video card because it is much faster than vesa/fbdev. Inside the xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2.ebuild file, I found this comment: # If you want more drivers built with minimal, file a bug # -Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> But asking a Gentoo Xorg maintainer every time for a driver addition is lame. Someone who wants a minimal Xorg would like to have only the accelerated driver he needs, and the needed driver varies from user to user. So, I came up with an ebuild patch enabling to use the XORG_MINIMAL_USER_DRIVERS to supply a list of drivers to build in addition to the basic ones. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 66274 [details, diff] Ebuild patch Also in the patch: - I converted the deprecated uclibc USE flag to elibc_uclibc - The 7x14 font font is supplied instead of the 6x13 font. A 80x24 terminal window still fits a 640x480 resolution and the increased size improves legibility at higher resolutions.
Did you test that X actually starts after applying your patch and installing that build? One of the 6x13 fonts is the 'fixed' font that is necessary for starting X. I would be interested to see what appears if you 'grep ^fixed /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias'
I was running X fine for a month until. Then, I found out that it worked because the 6x13 font was not removed by emerge. Today, I cleaned my fonts directory, then ran "emerge -K xorg-x11" and I was unable to start X because it cannot find the "fixed" font. By the way, the grep invocation you asked echoed this: fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 Also, Motif (I use openmotif 2.1.30) was ugly because it scaled up a bitmap font (well, until I changed my ~/.Xdefaults to use a better font). Talking about Motif apps, they whine for helvetica, times and courier. Should we do something about it? I would say stick to 6x13. Using 7x14 was some sort of experiment, as you see.
Created attachment 68972 [details, diff] Ebuild patch without the font size change
Equivalent functionality has been incorporated into X.Org 7.0 ebuilds.
