Package: live-config
Severity: wishlist
see attached mail for an explanation and patch from Volley
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For your consideration :)
Another idea i use for quite some time in my usb stick.
I usually bundle nvidia and fglrx drivers, but as you probably know:
sometimes the free drivers are the better choice.
This way i can have one entry in my bootloader that disables all at once.
Worf
>From d7deff9a71d662daecf4b0c379c0c9f2121c8514 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfgang Scheicher <wolfgang.scheic...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:27:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow to set "noproprietary" as xorg-driver to disable
vboxvideo,nvidia,fglrx
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components/1140-xserver-xorg | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/components/1140-xserver-xorg b/components/1140-xserver-xorg
index 7804877..ab65658 100755
--- a/components/1140-xserver-xorg
+++ b/components/1140-xserver-xorg
@@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ Config ()
esac
fi
+ if [ "${LIVE_XORG_DRIVER}" = "noproprietary" ] ; then
+ NOPROPRIETARY=true
+ unset LIVE_XORG_DRIVER
+ fi
+
if [ -z "${LIVE_XORG_DRIVER}" ] && [ -e /usr/bin/lspci ]
then
# pci-id of the first graphic card
@@ -121,7 +126,7 @@ Config ()
done
fi
- if [ -z "${LIVE_XORG_DRIVER}" ]
+ if [ -z "${LIVE_XORG_DRIVER}" ] && [ -z "${NOPROPRIETARY}" ]
then
# xorg-driver automatic override for virtualbox
if [ -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/virtualbox-guest-x11.list ] && echo "${_DEVICE}" | grep -qs '^80EEBEEF'
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2.6.4
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