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Offline coreplayer2

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Any advantage to using xf86 drivers with the current Xvesa (Tinycore5.1)?
« on: January 03, 2014, 11:42:58 AM »
I was wondering whether there is any benefit at all to installing any xf86 drivers with the current Xvesa (as shipped with Tinycore-5.1)?

eg:  will Xvesa use xf86-input-synaptics input driver?

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Re: Any advantage to using xf86 drivers with the current Xvesa (Tinycore5.1)?
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2014, 12:39:44 PM »
No, the xf86 drivers are only used by Xorg.
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Re: Any advantage to using xf86 drivers with the current Xvesa (Tinycore5.1)?
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2014, 11:09:35 PM »
Thanks   8)
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Re: Any advantage to using xf86 drivers with the current Xvesa (Tinycore5.1)?
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2014, 03:28:23 PM »
Ok likewise, does the extension " graphics-3.8.13-tinycore "  have any benefit at all with the current Xvesa?  Or is this ext. only of benefit for use with Xorg?

 
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Re: Any advantage to using xf86 drivers with the current Xvesa (Tinycore5.1)?
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2014, 05:45:59 AM »
Xorg needs it for acceleration with the open drivers.

It will actually conflict with Xvesa. However, it's useful with Xfbdev, as then you can use the screen's full resolution framebuffer, and not be limited to Vesa resolutions.
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Re: Any advantage to using xf86 drivers with the current Xvesa (Tinycore5.1)?
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2014, 10:52:43 AM »
That's interesting, thanks curaga for the info

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Re: Any advantage to using xf86 drivers with the current Xvesa (Tinycore5.1)?
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2014, 03:04:36 PM »
In my limited experience, I have not observed any side effects when running Xorg and Xvesa concurrently (on different DISPLAY's).
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