Bug 173060

Summary: Modular X: The VESA driver should probably be installed as a default fallback
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2005-11-13 12:17:02 UTC 
Description of problem:

Right now an X11 modular upgrade does not install any driver
It would probably be a good idea to install at least the vesa driver by default

ie make xorg-x11-server-Xorg depend on it
Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2005-11-13 14:04:52 UTC 
probably a good idea to install the keyboard and mouse driver by default too ;)
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2005-11-14 22:18:06 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Right now an X11 modular upgrade does not install any driver
> It would probably be a good idea to install at least the vesa driver by default
> 
> ie make xorg-x11-server-Xorg depend on it

We're going to have a separate 'virtual' package which contains dependencies
on every driver built for a particular architecture, and have the X server
"Requires" the virtual package.

This gives us the following benefits:
1) We can ensure that all drivers get installed mandatorily on OS installs.
2) We can ensure that all drivers get installed on upgrades[1]
3) We can upgrade individual drivers whenever we like, without updating all
   of them at the same time just for one driver.
4) If we want to add or remove a driver from the OS, or on a single
   architecture, we can add/remove the driver, update the virtual package,
   and release the new virtual package and new driver without having to
   also release a new X server package.

I'll add the vesa driver to the hard coded Xorg list in the next build.

(In reply to comment #1)
> probably a good idea to install the keyboard and mouse driver by default too 

Yep, jeremy added that last night.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2005-11-14 22:59:27 UTC 
These are added now