[Bug 171] Review Request: rpmfusion-config-display - tool to manage proprietary graphic drivers

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http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171





--- Comment #2 from Stewart Adam <s.adam at diffingo.com>  2008-11-24 14:15:09 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you explain the scope and the goals of this package a little more in
> detail?
It's essentially a better livna-config-display which handles things better, and
will obsolete livna-config-display. It essentially enables three key things:
* Parallel installation of multiple graphic drivers
* Auto-selection of the most appropriate driver out of the graphic drivers
installed on the local system
* Hooks to allow any GPU driver to be configured with rpmfusion-config-display
(ie, user packaged ones)
> - Are we going to write config files for every card out there, OR 
> - Are you going to extract this information from the Appendix A of README files
> inside the Nvidia driver packages (I don't know about ATI), OR
> - Do the end users have to write these config files by themselves?
For now (during the testing phase), since none of our packaged drivers have a
config file for rpmfusion-config-display, users will have to write it
themselves. Once this has been reviewed & accepted, I'll write up the config
files for each driver and package them so no user intervention will be
required. A config file is required per driver, not per card, and the PCI IDs
for the cards are taken from the driver support lists (ie Appendix A).
> About the software: I couldn't figure out what I should put for the version in
> the config file. I have kmod-nvidia-newest installed. I tried 
> version = newest
> version = 177
> version = 177.82
> version = 177.xx
> None worked. Either the script fails, or the window shows up but says "No
> module found".
> (I would go through the code but I didn't have time this weekend. )
Check out the README.developers file - version is the driver version (177.82).
"newest" should be in the filename, for example
/etc/rpmfusion-config-display.d/nvidia-newest.


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