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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 09:03, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 00:00 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Looking at vesa.c, there is quite a chunk of code in there depending on
> > DGA.
>
> I guess the question is, is this chunk of code actually doing anything
> useful/important, or is it just there to support DGA on VESA?  If the
> latter then people who don't need/want DGA (which is probably everybody,
> nowadays) can just take it out.
>
> All that said, I would have thought that the VESA driver itself was
> pretty much a fringe interest in this day and age.  Is anybody really
> using that on a shipping system?  If it's just for qemux86 test harness
> purposes then maybe we could turn on the vesafb driver in the kernel and
> use the straight framebuffer driver in Xorg rather than the VESA one.


I do. I use it a lot and that's why I found it was broken.

For me, having it on xserver-xorg and it disabled for xserver-xorg-lite
works for me for now.

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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