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off220

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Registered: 2010-04-01

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(Solved)Does my system need this packages?

Hello. I have intel 915 graphics, but it appeared I have this installed
extra/xf86-input-evdev   
extra/xf86-video-fbdev   
extra/xf86-video-intel   
extra/xf86-video-vesa 
My question is Does my system need these packages installed or I could easily remove all except extra/xf86-video-intel ?

Last edited by off220 (2011-03-14 19:15:22)

egan

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Re: (Solved)Does my system need this packages?

You'll want evdev for mouse and keyboard. fbdev is for framebuffer which you might want. And vesa is the fallback driver which may be useful if the intel driver breaks.

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Re: (Solved)Does my system need this packages?

you need xf86-input-evdev and xf86-video-intel, the rest you can remove.

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sskeirik

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Registered: 2011-03-13

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Re: (Solved)Does my system need this packages?

I'm no expert, but...

xf86-input-evdev is a requirement of xorg-server. So you want to keep it.

xf86-video-vesa is part of the group xorg and xorg-video-drivers. If you ran 'pacman -S xorg' or 'pacman -S xorg-video-drivers' you installed it. So that one is probably safe to remove.

xf86-video-fbdev is part of the group xorg-video-drivers. See above reasoning.

xf86-video-intel is required for intel cards AFAIK. So you should keep that one.

off220

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Registered: 2010-04-01

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Re: (Solved)Does my system need this packages?

ok, thank you guys..