On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:20:08PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:58:44AM +0000, Francesco Pretto wrote: > > I'm sorry, but this not a very useful answer. You are basically saying "the > > driver loading priority of Xorg is hardcoded and if you want to change it, > > recompile Xserver". I've already read that discussions in the past: I DON'T > > want > > Xorg to default ship with "nvidia" set at higher priority and I perfectly > > agree > > with reverting that commit. I just want to learn how to configure my system > > to > > accomplish what I've asked. There are 2 considerations: > > > > 1) You've pointed me the driver loading priority is hardcoded in Xorg so > > can't > > be changed by normal users. Maybe HAL fdi policies files can be used to > > accomodate my task? > > 2) If there's no configurable option to solve this, this would de > > definitively a > > lacking feature: Xorg can't prefer one driver instead of another in a > > xorg.conf > > less configuration. As I've explained, this would be very useful in my setup > > where basically I continue to swap video card depending the fact I'm running > > native or virtualized. > > If you want to configure Xorg, why not use xorg.conf?
What he wants to have is a config file (system) for the driver priority system. We don't have this. It's hardcoded. Actually it would make sense to have this configurable. Then, when updating a driver with new chip support, you could update this config file (system) and the Xserver would chose the right driver. No xorg.conf required. Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
