[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] xserver-xorg: do not disable-dga as VESA driver requires it

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 22:00, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> ...
>
Looking at vesa.c, there is quite a chunk of code in there depending on
> DGA.
>

Yes.


> Is there any harm to building DGA apart from an extra package? Its a
> self contained module isn't it?
>

AFAIK no. It seems to be a blob static linked onto the Xorg.


> ...

Of course the ideal solution would be for someone to convert the vesa
> driver to use the xrandr API...
>

Well, yes. But I cannot work on that now.

In meanwhile I sent another patch proposing to disable it for lite flavor
only, as it was before the update to 1.11 Xorg Xserver.

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