[Pkg-fglrx-devel] list of supported IDs

[Andreas Beckmann]

[resending, alioth rejected the message previously]

On 2011-08-30 10:38, Ronny Standtke wrote:
> Oh, I didn't test this either as downgrading to the free drivers is not
> really a use case for the main target audience of our distribution

OK, never mind.

> (Swiss primary schools). Even if I wanted to test this scenario, I run
> into a dependency hell while trying to backport the nvidia drivers to
> squeeze and therefore I only use the backported glx-alternatives and
> fglrx-glx packages at the moment. For nvidia I still use my own
> all-drivers-in-one package (yes, it also includes the nvidia kernel
> modules of all versions without conflicts).

Backporting the drivers should become easier very soon. Both
nvidia-graphics-drivers (280.13-2, uploaded today) and fglrx-driver
(1:11-8-2 in SVN, not yet uploaded) contain instructions for backporting
in readme.source and a prepare-squeeze-backport target in debian/rules
that performs the necessary changes. The nvidia legacy drivers will be
updated in a few days.

In your solution you renamed the kernel module from nvidia.ko to
nvidia_${VERSION}.ko and load this explicitly from the script. Have you
tried what happens if the module is not yet loaded and loading is
triggered by starting X? Does this still work?


Andreas