From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Received: by 10.182.34.133 with SMTP id z5mr537425obi.3.1423686990292; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:36:30 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.107.163.85 with SMTP id m82ls315565ioe.59.gmail; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:36:30 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.60.71 with SMTP id f7mr511249igr.10.1423686990125; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:36:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:36:28 -0800 (PST) From: Antonio Malcolm To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Message-Id: <9a4d05b8-8c8a-48e8-9f9b-4978ff806a5b@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <572ddce8-79f8-4b29-9a99-8647e8a1d2a0@googlegroups.com> References: <9386866b-d729-4587-bd55-ab639a2da6ed@googlegroups.com> <98b01b42-2db1-49e2-9ef2-27689f4e6b65@googlegroups.com> <268a4943-fd02-4499-8dbf-58f04e8d14d8@googlegroups.com> <572ddce8-79f8-4b29-9a99-8647e8a1d2a0@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Decent Starting Point For Rolling A Desktop Environment? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_4980_167727104.1423686988412" ------=_Part_4980_167727104.1423686988412 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4981_1490892064.1423686988412" ------=_Part_4981_1490892064.1423686988412 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ah, no, it's not new. The proprietary Nvidia installer (and, by extension, the distro-specific installers), overwrite the Intel/Xorg *glx and *GL drivers, in additiona to some others (I think, also the Mesa Intel DRI stuffs- but don't quite me, on that). So far, my attempts to abstract Nvidia's drivers has only borked things, as the Nvidia install does more than simply install the drivers; there's a lot, there, in general, so it becomes a time-sink, tracking it all and performing what is, essentially, dependency-surgery. So, I'm going to attempt the opposite, and copy the Intel-specific stuffs, which are more manageable, and easier to fix, if something breaks, to an /intel directory inside of /usr/lib/xorg, add the module paths to an Intel-specific Xorg config, and install the Nvidia packages in the usual way. We'll see how that goes... ------=_Part_4981_1490892064.1423686988412 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Ah, no, it's not new. The proprietary Nvidia installer (and, by extension, the distro-specific installers), overwrite the Intel/Xorg *glx and *GL drivers, in additiona to some others (I think, also the Mesa Intel DRI stuffs- but don't quite me, on that).
So far, my attempts to abstract Nvidia's drivers has only borked things, as the Nvidia install does more than simply install the drivers; there's a lot, there, in general, so it becomes a time-sink, tracking it all and performing what is, essentially, dependency-surgery. So, I'm going to attempt the opposite, and copy the Intel-specific stuffs, which are more manageable, and easier to fix, if something breaks, to an /intel directory inside of /usr/lib/xorg, add the module paths to an Intel-specific Xorg config, and install the Nvidia packages in the usual way. We'll see how that goes...
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