revert b59757e468227127b91fff17b523da4deec8b04d

Aaron Plattner aplattner at nvidia.com
Sun Jul 20 15:44:09 PDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 07:13:59AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> I do not see the point of adding autoconfig for drivers we don't ship
> with X.org.

I assume by "b59757e468227127b91fff17b523da4deec8b04d" you meant
66fb253082ea42179180303393e48846208987fa.  The point of X server
autoconfiguration is to make an attempt at working correctly in the absence
of an xorg.conf file.  Last I checked, the nvidia driver was not installed
by default on any distro.  For users that choose not to install the driver,
the server will simply fall back to nv now that we have multiple driver
autoconfig courtesy of Alan Coopersmith.  For users that choose to install
the nvidia driver, the X server will just work, which is the entire goal of
autoconfiguration.

-- Aaron



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