On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 17:14:13 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2011-07-08 20:19, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:47:50 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > >> since the proprietary nvidia driver does not work with Xorg > >> autoconfiguration, an xorg.conf is needed to enable it. > >> I'm planning to use debconf for creating a xorg.conf.d snippet on the > >> first installation of xserver-xorg-video-nvidia* (recently split from > >> nvidia-glx*), unless something is already configured manually. > >> I would place this file as /etc/X11/nvidia.conf and use the glx > >> alternatives system to install a slave alternative > >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf pointing to this file. That way > >> switching to/from nvidia's libGL.so.* and libglx.so would also > >> enable/disable the config file. > >> If this approach works out well for nvidia, I'll propose fglrx to do the > > >> Do you have any objections regarding this approach? > > > Yes. I don't think xorg.conf.d should be used for non-InputClass > > configuration sections at this point. See also > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32430 > > In that case, would it be OK to just install a slave alternative > directly as /etc/X11/xorg.conf? > The /etc/X11/nvidia.conf would be created only if there was no xorg.conf > previously (and no xorg.conf.d/*.conf with a 'Driver ".*"' line) and the > slave link will be created only if nvidia.conf exists. > So this should not interfere with systems where an xorg.conf already exists. > I very much dislike the idea of using alternatives for configuration files.
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