On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 04:16:49 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > please reenable the PCI_TXT_IDS_DIR feature of Xorg. Even if it is not > used by Xorg itself, it would simplify automatic configuration of third > party drivers (the non-free nvidia driver in this case). Xorg does not > (and needs not to) know details about the existence of these drivers as > long as finding a matching PCI ID redirects it to the correct driver, > Currently an xorg.conf has to be created by the user because > autoconfiguration does not use the proprietary driver. > I'm not going to enable that code for the sole use of the binary drivers.
> Or is there another solution to plug some driver into Xorg without > creating an xorg.conf? > One option is to patch the server with stuff like: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/xserver/xorg-server.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/104_nvidia_autodetect.patch;hb=refs/heads/ubuntu http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/xserver/xorg-server.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/105_fglrx_autodetect.patch;hb=refs/heads/ubuntu Another is to extend the configuration stuff to be able to handle output device configuration similarly to the InputClass sections introduced this year for input. Cheers, Julien
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