[Clfs-support] Some drivers need extra software.

[Stef Bon]

Joshua Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Stef Bon <stef at bononline.nl> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been installing Xorg 7.3 today, and ran into some troubles:
>>
>> the drivers xf86-video-wsfb-0.2.1, xf86-video-impact-0.2.0 and
>> xf86-video-glide-1.0.0 need extra software.
>>
>> the glide driver needs glide.h, which is not present,
>> the impact driver needs asm/cachectl.h and sys/cachectl.h
>> the wsfb driver needs dev/wscons/wsconsio.h
>>
>> Somebody knows how to solve this (I do not think they are important
>> drivers..)
>>
>> Stef Bon
>>     
>
> 1) wsfb is for NetBSD (primarily, possibly used elsewhere, but not
> Linux afaik) --- not important for CLFS, in my opinion.
>   
Shouldn't it be removed from the list then?
> 2) glide.h is typically acquired through mesa if I'm not mistaken,
> whether or not this is important for CLFS is really a toss-up, glide
> based cards are a bit old anymore, but still have a somewhat present
> following.
>   
Yes I think you're right.
But its not part of mesa (at least Mesa-7.0.2). So there should be a 
note in the dependencytable
that it needs extra software.



> 3) From the little Google tells me at a glance (and what I'm inclined
> to assume from the cachectl.h pair being located in asm/ and sys/
> anyways) the missing headers are from the kernel. What kernel are you
> building on? As for importance, I have no idea how common the "Sgi
> Indigo2 and Octane" are.
>
>   
My kernel is 2.6.23.17.


Greetings,

Stef Bon