Dan Nicholson wrote: > Any reason not to run something like Xorg -configure during init if > /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't exist? It's a little ugly, but it seems > like a much better idea than trying to duplicate PCI data again.
Xorg -configure cannot be used because it brings VMware video output and some real video cards made by S3 Inc. into completely unusable state until reboot. /etc/X11/xorg.conf always exists, because we want a place to write XKB settings to. The default video driver is "vesa", and udev rules change that. And I am not duplicating PCI data - there is a little program in the "xorg-udev-rules" package that extracts them from the drivers. And, if you look at the xf86-video-nv-1.2.2.1/src/nv_driver.c and compare the NVProbe() function with Probe functions of other drivers, you'll clearly see that "nv" is a special case. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
