f20, anaconda, net install and video out of range ....

[Bill Nottingham]

Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 14:28 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
> > > Why would it not install xorg-x11-drv-cirrus when it sees the physical
> > > card?
> > 
> > We don't have anything like the kernel's modaliases for X drivers, at
> > least not exposed in a way anaconda could use.
> 
> Of course, it's possible to do this. "all" you need is some poor sap to
> maintain something like this:
> 
> http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/ldetect-lst/trunk/lst/pcitable?view=markup

...

> Of course, we're 'just' talking about one case, but once you start
> building this kind of manual device/driver table, it tends to take on a
> mind of its own and start multiplying.

You could say it starts multiplying and spreading like a invasive weed,
even.

> I'm rather attached to the policy of Just Saying No.

*nod* If you have a specific explicit quirk in terms of "don't use XYZ
for the virt cirrus", it's probably best done in the driver itself.

Bill