nvidia-glx

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On 3/6/06, Xavier Claessens <xclaesse at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le lundi 06 mars 2006 à 16:15 +1100, Yuki Cuss a écrit :
> > Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm wondering why the postinst script of nvidia-glx doesn't runs
> > > "nvidia-glx-config enable" automatically ? I think if someone installs
> > > this package he just wants that is cards works without doing anything
> > > else...
> > >
> > > Xavier Claessens.
> > >
> >
> > Not necessarily. We could need to look at the package in an installed
> > state for any number of reasons. If anything, sending mail to the local
> > user or presenting some sort of feedback with advice on enabling it is a
> > better option.
> >
> >  - Yuki.
>
> Maybe we should have a package nvidia-for-noobs that enables the driver
> by default because asking the user the write a command line to simply
> activate the driver is definitively NOT Ubuntu-spirit. If someone don't
> want the driver enabled he can do "nvidia-glx-config disable" anyway...
> but basic users just wants the driver to work, that's all...
>
> Maybe a debconf key set by default to TRUE which ask if we want to
> enable the driver can do the trick, experts would disable if they want
> and noobs will just accept default setting...

Sounds like a good idea to me - it is very counter intuitive to
new/Windows users to find that after installing software it isn't
activated by default!