rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

[Casey Dahlin]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:48:19PM -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> 
> With this approach, you have lost a critical feature: the ability for
> you to change your hardware (or move the software bits to a different
> computer) and have everything automatically work.
> 
> Nathaniel

You lose it for a couple of strange usecases though:

1) Moving from a card that is up to date in what it supports to an older
card that isn't (rare).

2) Moving from one crappy ancient card to another (plausible, but still
rare).

The vesa driver should mean some workable video support in either case,
and from there, if we were really, truly concerned, we could detect the
need for the driver and prompt to install it. That's starting to sound
like the bad old days of kudzu though, and I'd be surprised if anyone
really felt this was worth that effort.

--CJD