[ubuntu-x] PPA for -fglrx/-nvidia autoloading

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Bryce Harrington wrote:

> This PPA includes two patches which cause -fglrx or -nvidia to
> automatically load even if not specified in xorg.conf.
>
>  https://edge.launchpad.net/~bryceharrington/+archive/beige
>
> In light of the interest in making proprietary driver usage easier,
> Mario suggested rolling these into a PPA so they can be tested.
>
> We had tried these patches out once before but found they did not behave
> properly in all cases.  As well, -nvidia (and maybe -fglrx) needed
> additional configuration settings in xorg.conf so the benefits of the
> patches were limited.
>
> Anyway, feedback on this would be most welcome.

The problem was that they don't work properly with xorg.conf, the result 
is that nvidia/fglrx would always be used (or something similarly bad 
behaviour, can't remember or test right now). The logic in the server 
needs fixing before they can work.


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Timo Aaltonen
Systems Specialist
IT Services, Helsinki University of Technology