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TigTex

Member

From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 301

Sugestion: set nouveau as default instead of nv

I think this is the best place to post this...

One of my arch setups is installed on an usb pen and I use it on different systems.
It works fine except one thing: the nouveau driver doesn't load without a xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf file like this (from archwiki - nouveau)

Section "Device"
       Identifier "n"
       Driver "nouveau"
EndSection

... and when I have that file, any other drivers fail to load (on intel systems for example) so I have to manualy add or remove that file when I'm on a nvidia or non-nvidia system.

Someone told me that I could use this gentoo patch
That looks harmless... xorg tries to load nouveau and then tries the other alternatives instead of defaulting to nv. Solves the problem and makes nouveau working without a xorg.conf file...

Could this be submited to the current xorg packages?

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.::. TigTex @ Portugal .::.

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Sugestion: set nouveau as default instead of nv

That's a feature request - post it in the bugtracker. The devs are unlikely to see it here.

As a general rule, Arch does not apply patches unless they have been accepted by the relevant upstream developers, so it would be advisable to check that before posting.