[pkg-nvidia-devel] r1136 - in /packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian: 99-nvidia-glx.conf changelog nvidia-glx.install.in

[Andreas Beckmann]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:
>> Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> anbe-guest at users.alioth.debian.org writes:
> 
>>>> let's try to provide a /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-nvidia-glx.conf
>>>> snippet

Just tried what happens if I activate this in a non-nvidia system:

>>> The concern that I had about this, and sorry I'm a little slow on
>>> responding to mail, is whether it will break X startup if you don't
>>> have an nvidia card, since the X server will try to initialize the
>>> device because it's in the configuration and not find a device.  But I

X breaks in this setup because the driver can't be loaded. I was not
even able to override the 99-nvidia.conf file with an /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file, so the only possibility to get X working again is removing
nvidia-glx. I didn't try to provide additional settings in the Device
section via /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but probably that would not work either.

>>> haven't tested; maybe it's smart enough to just skip that stanza now if
>>> the device doesn't exist?

Unfortunately, not, so this solution does not look like it could be
shipped by default (and there is an equivalent minimal xorg.conf
described in the README)

>> I haven't tested it so far, too. But I'll try to do so soon. One thing I
>> probably can't test is a multi gpu setup.

I don't think we need to test 2-gpus if it is failing on 0-gpus


Andreas