On 31/08/2007, Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Reading the Ubuntu complaints, it seems the guy who dreamt this up, did it as a kludge for his usual screwups. With Mandriva I never get a failure, if I have a new kernel with the nvidia driver not built for it, no problem I get the kernel nv_drv loaded instead, no 3D, but just works. I've promised to delve into how it's done, but haven't got around to it. It's been so in Mandriva going way back, worth looking into as it's been bullet proof for so long. Regards
Yes, this is usually the case on SUSE too, falls back to nv, but there are situations where it can fail. e.g someone changes their monitor (should improve with xorg 7.3), or someone uses something like nvidia-settings which has been known to corrupt the xorg config file . Or dodgy driver installer from ATI etc. Obviously the best situation is when nothing goes wrong, this is about contingency for when it does. Ubuntu's "bulletproofX" is mostly hype as they're just utilising an existing functionality of GDM, but it would be nice to have the same functionality. _ Benjamin Weber --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org