On 21-Feb-2001 Stuart Ballard wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> X is big and ugly. Mail the maintainer for guidance. >> >> That said, if you just need the server for your card, you only need to >> compile >> that and drop it on the system, the rest of the packaging is independent of >> that card support. > > Hmm. That sounds promising (I believe all the changes I need are only > related to the drivers for the cards I'm interested in). Do you know > where I might look for instructions on how to do this? (I get the > impression, perhaps wrongly, from your post that this is a fairly common > procedure). And do you know if it still applies in XFree 4.x where the > "server" is xserver-xfree86 and the card drivers all live inside of the > one server? >
it is my understanding that xfree86 is just a wrapper program / lib that the XFree people made that knows how to find the driver for your card. Unlike svga server, they split out the drivers into smaller loadable chunks. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/neomagic_drv.o is the module my card in my laptop uses. You probably just need to drop your own driver in there after it compiles. Again, mail the X maintainer.
