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sofa5000

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Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 10

Why does xf86-video-intel conflicts xf86-video-i810?

Hello,

I have a question. Why conflicts xf86-video-intel the xf86-video-i810 driver? Yes I know that -intel is the follow-up, but are there also another (technical) reasons? The problem is that -intel doesn't work very good for me, but sometimes I need it to get a external monitor working. If both are installed it would be no problem to switch it in the xorg.conf, but installing around everytime is a bit annoying.
I just wanted to ask why this is so and if this could be changed

Thanks
PS: I don't want to start a revolution ;-) and please forgive me if this is a silly question.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Why does xf86-video-intel conflicts xf86-video-i810?

Have a look:

$ pacman -Ql xf86-video-intel
xf86-video-intel /usr/
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/libI810XvMC.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/libI810XvMC.so.1
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/libI810XvMC.so.1.0.0
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i810_dri.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i915_dri.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i915tex_dri.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ch7017.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ch7xxx.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ivch.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sil164.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/tfp410.so
xf86-video-intel /usr/share/
xf86-video-intel /usr/share/man/
xf86-video-intel /usr/share/man/man4/
xf86-video-intel /usr/share/man/man4/i810.4.gz
xf86-video-intel /usr/share/man/man4/intel.4.gz

$ pacman -Ql xf86-video-i810
xf86-video-i810 /usr/
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/libI810XvMC.so
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/libI810XvMC.so.1
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/libI810XvMC.so.1.0.0
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/xorg/
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i810_dri.so
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i915_dri.so
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i915tex_dri.so
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
xf86-video-i810 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so
xf86-video-i810 /usr/share/
xf86-video-i810 /usr/share/man/
xf86-video-i810 /usr/share/man/man4/
xf86-video-i810 /usr/share/man/man4/i810.4.gz

--> they can't coexist in the filesystem because of the file conflicts.

sofa5000

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Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 10

Re: Why does xf86-video-intel conflicts xf86-video-i810?

Does that mean that -i810 is included in -intel. Because in other distros (e.g. Ubuntu) they coexist together and there are not so much files in the package. Here is the package list of Ubuntu:

-intel

/usr/lib/libI810XvMC.so
/usr/lib/libI810XvMC.so.1
/usr/lib/libI810XvMC.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ch7017.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ch7xxx.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ivch.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sil164.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/tfp410.so
/usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-video-intel/script
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-intel/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-intel/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-intel/copyright
/usr/share/man/man4/intel.4.gz

-i810

/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so
/usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-video-i810/script
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-i810/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-i810/copyright
/usr/share/man/man4/i810.4.gz