On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:42:50PM +0000, Francesco Pretto wrote: > Hello, this is my need: > > I've installed ubuntu in my nvidia powered notebook; I've learnt how to use > the > same native installation in a VirtualBox environment, using the createrawvmdk > directive. I've deleted the xorg.conf file and Xorg correctly detects the > emulated video card ("vboxvideo") when launched within VirtualBox. > Unfortunately, with a xorg.conf-less configuration, now Xorg choose "nv" as > the > default driver for my nvidia card when booting ubuntu natively. Is there a > supported and clean way to make it choose the "nvidia" one? I've tried > searching > around: someone points about creating an HAL fdi policy, but without examples. > Others points about the fact Xorg already have a priority system for loading > drivers, but there's no informations on how to modify it. > > How I am supposed to do to accomplish this task? Ask me if you need more > details.
See discussion on http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037098.html and the following commmits in git master of xserver: commit 0dbfe0ebc69c307c0626ba824de15d03de1251d4 Author: Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> Date: Mon Jul 21 03:50:15 2008 +0300 Revert "Try nvidia before nv under the assumption that people who install it usually want to *use* it, too." Per mailing list discussion. This reverts commit 66fb253082ea42179180303393e48846208987fa. commit 66fb253082ea42179180303393e48846208987fa Author: Aaron Plattner <aplatt...@nvidia.com> Date: Tue Jul 8 02:39:00 2008 -0700 Try nvidia before nv under the assumption that people who install it usually want to *use* it, too. Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg