Bug 103022 – Xorg ebuild allowing to specify video driver in minimal mode

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description René Rhéaume (a.k.a. repzilon, rener) 2005-08-18 16:46:00 UTC]

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 <[e-mail]>

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:

[Comment 1 René Rhéaume (a.k.a. repzilon, rener) 2005-08-18 16:51:14 UTC]

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.

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-09-20 09:57:37 UTC]

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'

[Comment 3 René Rhéaume (a.k.a. repzilon, rener) 2005-09-21 16:34:48 UTC]

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.

[Comment 4 René Rhéaume (a.k.a. repzilon, rener) 2005-09-21 16:35:33 UTC]

Created attachment 68972 [details, diff]
Ebuild patch without the font size change

[Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-02-12 12:55:47 UTC]

Equivalent functionality has been incorporated into X.Org 7.0 ebuilds.