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Michael Shigorin ea8a908931 x11: driver and purpose related refactoring This has had several goals: - a target suitable for x86 and armh providing a rather minimal set of base xorg packages and generic drivers; - task-oriented targets for graphics use cases: + "desktop" means rather 2D focus with 3D being welcome or even essential but not performance critical, thus "a slower driver is fine as long as it does work"; + "3d" means specific 3D performance being critical, that is "no 3D means no use at all". Regarding the free and proprietary 3D-capable drivers: the previous idea was to split out some common ground and then add the contenders on top of that; the current approach is based on the observation that the live images requiring proprietary NVIDIA/AMD drivers by default are usually of not much use with hardware that lacks proper 3D acceleration (like Tseng cards) or the driver support for that (like Matrox these days). Intel videodriver makes for a special case though: it is both free and top-notch performer. Thanks sem@ and boyarsh@ for discussion. PS: xorg-drv-{keyboard,mouse,void} dropped; those who need these can usually help themselves.	2013-06-17 16:01:35 +04:00
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Michael Shigorin ea8a908931 x11: driver and purpose related refactoring

This has had several goals:
- a target suitable for x86 and armh providing a rather
  minimal set of base xorg packages and generic drivers;
- task-oriented targets for graphics use cases:
  + "desktop" means rather 2D focus with 3D being welcome
    or even essential but not performance critical, thus
    "a slower driver is fine as long as it does work";
  + "3d" means specific 3D performance being critical,
    that is "no 3D means no use at all".

Regarding the free and proprietary 3D-capable drivers:
the previous idea was to split out some common ground
and then add the contenders on top of that; the current
approach is based on the observation that the live images
requiring proprietary NVIDIA/AMD drivers *by default*
are usually of not much use with hardware that lacks
proper 3D acceleration (like Tseng cards) or the driver
support for that (like Matrox these days).

Intel videodriver makes for a special case though:
it is both free and top-notch performer.

Thanks sem@ and boyarsh@ for discussion.

PS: xorg-drv-{keyboard,mouse,void} dropped;
those who need these can usually help themselves.

2013-06-17 16:01:35 +04:00

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Эта фича добавляет базовую поддержку графической системы X11,
а также комплектует типовые десктопные окружения и средства
графического входа в систему.

Для добавления X-сервера и драйверов используйте цели:
- use/x11/xorg -- свободные драйверы, может недоставать
  акселерации, особенно 3D, и функций энергосбережения,
  но поддерживают наиболее широкий спектр оборудования
  для типичных десктопных задач;
- use/x11/3d -- по возможности подключаются проприетарные
  драйверы NVIDIA/AMD, обычно обладающие более высоким
  уровнем ускорения графики, но также имеющие и больше
  проблем совместимости со свежими ядрами/xorg-server,
  а заодно обычно рано теряющие поддержку "устаревших"
  видеокарт.

Их применение возможно совмещать, но в этом случае следует
понимать, что автоопределение в X.org предпочитает свободный
драйвер и nvidia при наличии nouveau не будет автоматически
выбран, т.е. потребуется дополнительное конфигурирование
(вручную или при помощи alterator-x11) -- для live-систем
это может быть лишено практического смысла.

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