On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, William M. Quarles wrote: >Also, I need to be a little more explicit as to how I have my file >structure setup. I never actually write the file as "radeon.o" in my >kernel modules tree, and I don't actually have a /usr/X11R6 directory. >I have a file named radeon-RH.o and a file named radeon-gatos.o, and >radeon.o is just a symbolic link to which ever driver that I am using. >Same thing with the X11R6 directory. So again nothing gets overwritten. >This also allows me to switch drivers, especially important since the >GATOS drivers have not been working very well for me. > >In order to switch drivers, I have exit my XFree86 session, rmmod >radeon, switch both symbolic links, and startx again. If I miss any of >these steps, it's not a matter of losing DRI, it's a matter of my >computer locking up, so I am fairly certain that I am using the GATOS >driver when I know that I am using the GATOS driver. AVview also works >when using the GATOS driver, but not when using the Red Hat driver. >However, since I'm sure my system is going to be doubted, I recompiled >and reinstalled the Radeon module and redumped the ATI.2 XFree86 >binaries, and saw no improvement.
Instead of using symbolic links, you can install custom X modules in any other directory somewhere else, and use the ModulePath directive in the config file to override where the X server looks for modules first. Using multiple config files (or a single well crafted file), you can switch between drivers by using startx with commandline options. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
