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
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