Jason Williams [2007-09-08 01:07]: Hi Jason,

I am curious as to the presence of the Sun video drivers in CRUX. They are xorg-xf86-video-sunbw2, suncg14, suncg3, suncg6, sunffb, sunleo, and suntcx. They are installed by default on the install cd when Xorg is selected for installation. With them installed, X -configure and xorgcfg hangs when probing drivers requiring a reboot. Uninstalling those drivers allows those commands to function. There are also xorg-applewmproto, xorg-windowswmproto, xorg-libapplewm, and xorg-libwindowswm in the Xorg repo as well. I am just wondering if these packages are needed in x86 Linux. Thanks in advance for your time.

Originally I thought it would be a good idea to port everything, "just in case". eg I believe if anyone gets working on crux/sparc again one day, they might appreciate those sun video drivers :D The *apple* and *windows* stuff is indeed pointless on Linux. For CRUX 2.4, I'll remove the latter ports from the tree, and will talk to the other guys about not shipping them on the ISO. Thanks, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?