too many video drivers

[Frank Shute]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 03:08:14PM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
>
> Hi,
>    I am rebuilding ports and realize that i have too many input/video
> drivers for x-win installed. i know i need nv driver since my graphic
> card is from nvidia, and i want to deinstall all others. but i am not
> sure if its safe to do so, e.g. i am confused by "xf86-video-chips"
> since i don't know what kind of "chip" that stands for. can someone
> tell me which are basics and which are safe to remove? thanks!!
> 
> TFC

I've got an nvidia card and I've got these ticked:

$ pkg_info | grep X | grep driver
xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2 X.Org keyboard input driver
xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0_3 X.Org mouse input driver
xf86-video-nv-2.1.12_2 X.Org nv display driver
xf86-video-vesa-2.1.0 X.Org vesa display driver
xorg-drivers-7.4    X.org drivers meta-port

# cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers; make config

to set them. (My ports are a bit out of date BTW). You don't need the
vesa driver either.

Regards,

-- 

 Frank 


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