Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Why can't we just update driver_aliases etal. to load nvidia-legacy-96 > for pci id's of cards only supported by that driver, nvidia-legacy-173 > for those supported by that driver but not later ones, etc. ? > > We could have those return different VIS_GETIDENTIFIER strings so the > Xserver knows which driver to load. > It's the name space issue for the clients. All the clients are hardcoded to open /dev/nvidiactl (pseudo driver instance) and /dev/nvidia? (character driver instance). We can't have three drivers which declare the same pseudo driver instance.
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