On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:18:18AM -0000, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:10:48PM -0000, Tormod Volden (~offline till March) > wrote: > > There used to be a hook in modprobe that would only load the fglrx > > module if "fglrx" was specified as the driver in xorg.conf. Now that > > xorg.conf is not used any longer (for ati at least, and I suppose for > > fglrx neither?), this is no solution. I guess our X has been patched to > > prefer the fglrx driver if it is installed. One ugly way would then be > > to only load the fglrx module if fglrx is installed. > > > > in my case i only had the fglrx "kernel" part installed and not the > xorg part. So this seems to be no solution. > > > Adding a "fglrx breaks ati" would most precisely describe the truth, but > > it we don't really want people to uninstall ati because they want to try > > out fglrx. > > Well, i am not really for promoting fglrx ... if there is the choice > of a) either breaking your free ati driver or b) making it painful to > test fglrx lets chooose b).
Actually, I retract that statement. I think we need to find something on code level, like below ... > IMO, we should add a hook that doesnt load the fglrx module unless > > a) fglrx is in xorg.conf > b) not -ati xorg driver is installed > > - Alexander > - Alexander -- [R580] EXA has severe performance impact on ATI R580 (X1900) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315889 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs