> From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:38:08 -0700 > > Nvidia hardware will now default to "vesa" until an xorg.conf file is > created to set it to "nv", "nvidia", or "nouveau".
The vesa driver only works on i386/amd64. Where does this leave users of other architectures? Quite a few PowerPC Mac's have nvidia hardware. > We've had reports of displays that fail to autoconfigure because > Xorg tries to use "nv", but nv fails when DisplayPort is in use. Still the majority of the hardware out there will still work. And monitors that have a DisplayPort connector typically don't have a resolution that's a very good match to the vesa driver isn't it? > Given nvidia's recent announcement deprecating the nv driver, > and that nv will never support DisplayPort, the vesa driver > seems a safer default for autoconfiguration than nv. I disagree. If Nvidia decides to screw over the open source community, it doesn't mean we have to bend over backwards. Isn't "nouveau" ready to take over the role of "nv" yet? > diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c > b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c > index 7b836b0..a6f0c57 100644 > --- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c > +++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c > @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ videoPtrToDriverList(struct pci_device *dev, > break; > case 0x102b: driverList[0] = "mga"; break; > case 0x10c8: driverList[0] = "neomagic"; break; > - case 0x10de: case 0x12d2: driverList[0] = "nv"; break; > + case 0x10de: case 0x12d2: /* nv is deprecated */ break; > case 0x1106: driverList[0] = "openchrome"; break; > case 0x1b36: driverList[0] = "qxl"; break; > case 0x1163: driverList[0] = "rendition"; break; _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
