On 24/02/2018 18:45, Tim Tassonis wrote: > Hi all > > I'm just about to build the xorg-server drivers and noticed that the vesa > driver has gone from the book. I'm not an expert in xorg and I could > successfully start my xserver using the fbdev driver in my qemu vm that I > started with vga=std. However, the current vesa driver > xf86-video-vesa-2.4.0.tar.gz builds and runs fine with current lfs/blfs. > > Is there a reason that it got dropped, maybe like there be no actual hardware > or virtual environment requring it? > >
The qemu VM's with vga=std work pretty well with the KMS driver, which is much better than the vesa one. ISTR that was the reason for removing the veas driver. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
