Xorg7/Drivers

Download Source:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/

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Drivers

The source URL above is the base URL. Appending *.bz2 or *.gz will download every input and video driver. You probably don't need every driver available. Just append the name of the driver tarball you want.

Alternately, if you chose to use subdirectories, the tarballs can be retrieved as follows. This will prevent multiple versions from being downloaded when multiple versions exist and downloading drivers you don't want. Get the list of drivers:

 wget http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/svn/x/wget/driver-7.1.wget

Edit this list and comment out or completely remove the drivers you don't need. Now download the driver tarballs.

 cd driver
 wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/ -i ../driver-7.1.wget

There are 71 drivers available for Linux; twenty-eight are input drivers and 43 are video drivers. You will need to know your hardware to select the approriate ones. But the name of the driver is generally pretty self-explanatory as to which hardware it supports. The 28 input drivers are:

• xf86-input-acecad
• xf86-input-aiptek (Linux only)
• xf86-input-calcomp
• xf86-input-citron
• xf86-input-digitaledge
• xf86-input-dmc
• xf86-input-dynapro
• xf86-input-elo2300
• xf86-input-elographics
• xf86-input-evdev (Linux only)
• xf86-input-fpit
• xf86-input-hyperpen
• xf86-input-jamstudio
• xf86-input-joystick
• xf86-input-keyboard
• xf86-input-magellan
• xf86-input-magictouch
• xf86-input-microtouch
• xf86-input-mouse
• xf86-input-mutouch
• xf86-input-palmax
• xf86-input-penmount
• xf86-input-spaceorb
• xf86-input-summa
• xf86-input-tek4957
• xf86-input-ur98 (Linux only)
• xf86-input-vmmouse (for 64-bit systems only)
• xf86-input-void

The 43 video drivers are:

• xf86-video-apm
• xf86-video-ark
• xf86-video-ati
• xf86-video-chips
• xf86-video-cirrus
• xf86-video-cyrix
• xf86-video-dummy
• xf86-video-fbdev
• xf86-video-glide
• xf86-video-glint
• xf86-video-i128
• xf86-video-i740
• xf86-video-i810
• xf86-video-imstt
• xf86-video-mga
• xf86-video-neomagic
• xf86-video-newport
• xf86-video-nsc
• xf86-video-nv
• xf86-video-rendition
• xf86-video-s3
• xf86-video-s3virge
• xf86-video-savage
• xf86-video-siliconmotion
• xf86-video-sis
• xf86-video-sisusb (Linux only)
• xf86-video-sunbw2
• xf86-video-suncg14
• xf86-video-suncg3
• xf86-video-suncg6
• xf86-video-sunffb (Linux only)
• xf86-video-sunleo
• xf86-video-suntcx
• xf86-video-tdfx
• xf86-video-tga
• xf86-video-trident
• xf86-video-tseng
• xf86-video-v4l (Linux only)
• xf86-video-vesa
• xf86-video-vga
• xf86-video-via
• xf86-video-vmware
• xf86-video-voodoo

Dependencies

Required

Xserver

Installation

Non-Multilib

Compile each driver in turn.

 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig ./configure ${XORG_CONFIG} \ --with-xorg-module-dir=${XORG_PREFIX}/lib/X11/modules 
 make

Install each driver.

 make install

Multilib

32-Bit

Compile each driver in turn.

 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" \
 ./configure ${XORG_CONFIG32} --with-xorg-module-dir=${XORG_PREFIX}/lib/X11/modules 
 make

Install each driver.

 make install

64-Bit

Compile each driver in turn.

 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib64/pkgconfig CC="gcc -m64" CXX="g++ -m64" \
 ./configure ${XORG_CONFIG64} --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
 --with-xorg-module-dir=${XORG_PREFIX}/lib64/X11/modules
 make

Install each driver.

 make install

Next install xterm