"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Yorke wrote: > > > I have tried the EXACT listing you have here but it still puts on all > > the xserver-xorg-video-* stuff...I do not know exactly how much overhead > > these packages add but I would really rather using just the VESA driver > > and remove the rest...but a question about that...how do I force the > > usage of just the VESA driver? > > If you're using aptitude or apt-get at the command line, try putting > xserver-xorg-video-vesa at the beginning of the list, like this: > > aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg [...] > > or else just install xserver-xorg-video-vesa FIRST and then all the > other stuff in a second run. > > The trick here is that the -vesa package Provides "xserver-xorg-video". > So if you install xserver-xorg-video-vesa FIRST, then xserver-xorg's > dependency on "xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video" is satisfied > without APT having to pull in xserver-xorg-video-all (a meta-package > that, as its name says, pulls in every video driver). > > Similarly you can specify a particular package that Provides > "xserver-xorg-input" to prevent the xserver-xorg-input-all meta-package > from pulling in all the input drivers. Just make sure you know exactly > which one you need! And if you change your hardware in the future, > remember that you may need to install new -video-<something> and/or > -input-<something> packages to suit.
I've had good results with aptitude in interactive mode when doing stuff like this. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
