On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:33:41PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> > One more thing about this patchset. what's the behaviour if the server is
>> > run with Xorg -config foobar.conf?
>> >
>> > Does it still scan xorg.conf.d? If so, we need an option to disable that so
>> > one can force _only_ the use of a custom xorg.conf, without system
>> > configurations interfering.
>>
>> A command line option or a setting in the foobar.conf ?
>
> I'd say a commandline option at least. I'm not sure how much use a .conf
> option would be to disable scanning of the xorg.conf directory, it seems
> execessive.
>
>> And while I'm here, while it's not a requirement for this patch set, should
>> matching verbs be added for PCI ids -> video drivers as well, so that the
>> nvidia package could install a conf.d file to map nvidia cards to it and
>> the nouveau package could do the same to override the Xorg server builtin
>> mapping?   (Or radeon/radeonhd/fglrx.)
>
> sounds good to me.

I thought about that a couple times, but I'm not exactly sure how it
should work. "MatchPCI"? Wildcard patterns a la wordexp(3)?

--
Dan
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