On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:32 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 14.04.2011 15:06, schrieb Jan de Groot: > >> His closing comments in the bug report are wrong, I think. I need to > >> try, but if I understand this right, you can still install nouveau (with > >> this file) and X will fall back to other drivers if nouveau fails. > > > > No, once you configure a driver, it will be taken. If it fails, it will > > just throw an error. The 20-nvidia.conf file in nvidia-utils also forces > > the nvidia driver for all devices. > > I tried this with 1.9.x with a thinclient setup to pass the ShadowFB > > option to the intel driver. The Intel machines worked, the ATI machines > > didn't start X because the intel driver didn't work. > > This situation is really crappy: > 1) The list of default drivers to try is hardcoded into Xorg, not > configurable. > 2) Instead of trying multiple available device configuration sections, > Xorg will take the first one available and fail if that doesn't work. > > So, if a new driver is added, it won't be supported out of the box in a > clean way. IMO, this justifies patching the list inside the xorg-server > package, adding nvidia and nouveau (in that order).
The order doesn't matter, as you can't have both nvidia and nouveau installed at the same time due to -dri conflicts. BTW: as we have hybrid graphics these days, is that supported by the Nvidia driver, and if so, shouldn't we think of some other way to support xf86-video-intel + nvidia-utils on one system?
