John Martin wrote:
> Dave Miner wrote:
>>
>>
>> Speaking as one person with a system that's already in the legacy
>> driver, I'm much in favor of doing the work for maintaining the
>> branches ;-)
>>
> Maintaining the branches is a given. The first legacy fork for 96.43
> has been
> updated with bug fixes and enhancements four times since then. The same
> will
> happen with 173.14 fork.
>
> The issue being raised is whether we need to come up with a mechanism to
> automatically select the correct driver. This is fairly easy to do on
> Linux because
> the X driver selects the kernel driver to load when X starts. Not so
> easy to do on
> Solaris as the kernel driver, including a companion pseudo driver, is
> chosen
> at boot time (for a graphics console device).
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.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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