How to make xorg prefer "nvidia" over "nv" driver in a xorg.conf less configuration?

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:20:08PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:58:44AM +0000, Francesco Pretto wrote:
> > I'm sorry, but this not a very useful answer. You are basically saying "the
> > driver loading priority of Xorg is hardcoded and if you want to change it,
> > recompile Xserver". I've already read that discussions in the past: I DON'T want
> > Xorg to default ship with "nvidia" set at higher priority and I perfectly agree
> > with reverting that commit. I just want to learn how to configure my system to
> > accomplish what I've asked. There are 2 considerations:
> > 
> > 1) You've pointed me the driver loading priority is hardcoded in Xorg so can't
> > be changed by normal users. Maybe HAL fdi policies files can be used to
> > accomodate my task?
> > 2) If there's no configurable option to solve this, this would de definitively a
> > lacking feature: Xorg can't prefer one driver instead of another in a xorg.conf
> > less configuration. As I've explained, this would be very useful in my setup
> > where basically I continue to swap video card depending the fact I'm running
> > native or virtualized.
> 
> If you want to configure Xorg, why not use xorg.conf?

What he wants to have is a config file (system) for the driver
priority system. We don't have this. It's hardcoded.

Actually it would make sense to have this configurable. Then, when
updating a driver with new chip support, you could update this config
file (system) and the Xserver would chose the right driver. No
xorg.conf required.

Best regards,
Stefan

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