How to generate videoaliases/foo.xinf for hwdata?
Xavier Bachelot
xavier at bachelot.org
Mon Nov 5 16:21:31 UTC 2007
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "AJ" == Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> writes:
>
> AJ> Openchrome appears to be a complete superset of the existing via
> AJ> driver, which is unmaintained and in some cases actively broken.
> AJ> So I have no problem with openchrome actively claiming devices.
>
yes, openchrome is based on what used to be the via xorg driver.
> So then should the existing via driver stop claiming them? Otherwise
> don't we start running into unspecified behavior when multiple .xinf
> files claim a device?
>
> - J<
>
My understanding is openchrome will only claim a device if it's manually
installed (obviously), and if the user invokes system-config-display
again after that. Does this make sense ?
Regards,
Xavier
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