xorg configuration for the non-free nvidia driver

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Mon Jul 11 16:26:19 UTC 2011


Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> 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.

Combining configuration files with slave alternatives makes me nervous.
I'm not sure what would happen if the system administrator broke the
symlink (via an editor action, for example) while the alternatives system
still thinks that it's active; we might end up confusing the alternatives
database.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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