Re: Process for patch/build/install/modify/rebuild/reinstall

[tannj <fake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:43:40 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, tannj wrote:
>
> > Thanks.  I think I'll cut my teeth on 6.9.0 first like Joerg suggested.
>
> You may be doing work that has already been done. As I mentioned 6.9 is
> dead and Intel provides and maintains newer open source driver via Xorg.
> (Not related to pkgsrc.)
>
> >  But, I'm curious about how to create the modular version.  Could you
> > point me in the right direction towards some documentation?
>
> See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide
>
> (Again not related to pkgsrc. If you want to do it with pkgsrc have a  
> look
> at pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-ati or x11/xf86-video-wsfb and copy and create
> your own for pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-intel -- but remember this is not
> supported officially yet. Nevertheless, feel free to email me if you have
> questions.)

I wanted to do this originally so I could run X on my dinky machine.  I'll  
try fixing 6.9.0 first and study up on modular in parallel.