On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:03:58PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 09/29/16 01:48 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > >I see from the log that Xorg loads its NVIDIA driver from > >/usr/X11/lib/modules/drivers/amd64/nvidia_drv.so and its VESA driver > >from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amd64/vesa_drv.so . These drivers > >must in turn load the system drivers. For example, VESA driver must > >load /kernel/drv/amd64/vgatext . > > Nope - the kernel loads those early in boot long before Xorg is loaded, > and Xorg uses information from the kernel about which it loaded to help > select which Xorg driver module to load to work with it.
Yes, I discovered that while I was downgrading the nvidia software. Xorg's NVIDIA driver is a client of the kernel driver. The two are quite different in size, and likely in content too. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
