xorg configuration for the non-free nvidia driver

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-07-08 20:19, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Jul  8, 2011 at 10:47:50 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> since the proprietary nvidia driver does not work with Xorg
>> autoconfiguration, an xorg.conf is needed to enable it.
>> I'm planning to use debconf for creating a xorg.conf.d snippet on the
>> first installation of xserver-xorg-video-nvidia* (recently split from
>> nvidia-glx*), unless something is already configured manually.
>> I would place this file as /etc/X11/nvidia.conf and use the glx
>> alternatives system to install a slave alternative
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf pointing to this file. That way
>> switching to/from nvidia's libGL.so.* and libglx.so would also
>> enable/disable the config file.
>> If this approach works out well for nvidia, I'll propose fglrx to do the

>> Do you have any objections regarding this approach?

> Yes.  I don't think xorg.conf.d should be used for non-InputClass
> configuration sections at this point.  See also
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32430

In that case, would it be OK to just install a slave alternative
directly as /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
The /etc/X11/nvidia.conf would be created only if there was no xorg.conf
previously (and no xorg.conf.d/*.conf with a 'Driver ".*"' line) and the
slave link will be created only if nvidia.conf exists.
So this should not interfere with systems where an xorg.conf already exists.

Andreas