On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:50:34 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > 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?
Is this Optimus? Afaik you cannot use these on Linux. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
