On 01/01/13 08:24 PM, Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio wrote: > The "autodetecting" mentioned into the live-config man page refers to > the xserver-xorg script and not Xorg itself.
OK. Got it now. > If the xorg-driver boot parameter is blank, the script tries to detect > the driver by looking at the PCI ID of the graphic card, see the code ([0]). Yup. > When it finds the PCI ID of the vbox graphic card, it wrongly assumes > that the vboxvideo driver is installed, which it may not be true. > > Then it creates (or an already created configuration file is copied) a > file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d which basically forces X to load that driver. Not sure how Xorg would automatically handle that for fglrx and nvidia. I always thought for those cases you needed to manually intervene, or else the free drivers would be used instead. So I gather this code has something to do with that. > If the package containing vboxvideo is not installed, obviously X does > exit because the driver listed into the configuration file is not installed. I see. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
