11:25 p.m.
So, it seems less and less likely that this is going to be fixed by F14
GA:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623742
which means *-config-display won't work, which means enabling nvidia,
fglrx and psb won't work as currently packaged.
So here's a suggestion: we could replace the use of the *-config-display
tools to write xorg.conf by simply writing static snippets
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d in %post or from the services. For psb this
should be trivial as it's an RandR 1.2 driver, I really only need to
specify the driver name and a couple of options. I think it should also
be feasible for nvidia / fglrx since they do use EDID detection these
days - I don't think the stuff actually needed in an xorg.conf snippet
to enable these drivers has to vary between systems, we should be able
to just make it a simple snippet.
What does everyone think of this approach, does it seem sensible? It'd
be nice to push this out to be ready for GA next week.
--
adamw
5:51 a.m.
On 30/10/10 10:25, Adam Williamson wrote:
So, it seems less and less likely that this is going to be fixed by
F14
GA:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623742
which means *-config-display won't work, which means enabling nvidia,
fglrx and psb won't work as currently packaged.
Does that also stop
nvidia-srttings from doing it's job ?
9:20 a.m.
2010/10/30 David Timms <dtimms(a)iinet.net.au>:
On 30/10/10 10:25, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> So, it seems less and less likely that this is going to be fixed by F14
> GA:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623742
>
> which means *-config-display won't work, which means enabling nvidia,
> fglrx and psb won't work as currently packaged.
Does that also stop nvidia-srttings from doing it's job ?
This tool never did
it's jobs right in our case, given that
livna-config-display need to set the right ModulePath section first
along with several tweaks.
11:12 a.m.
2010/10/30 Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)shaw.ca>:
So, it seems less and less likely that this is going to be fixed by
F14
GA:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623742
which means *-config-display won't work, which means enabling nvidia,
fglrx and psb won't work as currently packaged.
So here's a suggestion: we could replace the use of the *-config-display
tools to write xorg.conf by simply writing static snippets
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d in %post or from the services. For psb this
should be trivial as it's an RandR 1.2 driver, I really only need to
specify the driver name and a couple of options. I think it should also
be feasible for nvidia / fglrx since they do use EDID detection these
days - I don't think the stuff actually needed in an xorg.conf snippet
to enable these drivers has to vary between systems, we should be able
to just make it a simple snippet.
What does everyone think of this approach, does it seem sensible? It'd
be nice to push this out to be ready for GA next week.
Indeed, I don't think we
can rely anymore on the fedora pyxf86config
for the long term. It seems to be deprecated as system-config-display.
Here is the very basic xorg.conf file needed by the nvidia driver:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Then I've successfully tested that the ModulePath section could go to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-nvidia.conf
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection
rpmfusion-config-display is also affected by the crash, so we need to
redesign it anyway.
The drawback is that we become more and more static. We will also not
be alble to fallback to another driver in the case of a missing nvidia
module.
But I think that feature was already broken and it's now even more
broken with the f14 crash of livna-config-display. So it would be
better for livna-config-display to be removed at all. So users can
have a working configuration on install without having it broken
afterward because of that crash.
Nicolas (kwizart)
12:04 p.m.
2010/11/2 Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart(a)gmail.com>:
2010/10/30 Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)shaw.ca>:
> So, it seems less and less likely that this is going to be fixed by F14
> GA:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623742
I've commited an attempt
to workaround the problem for f15, will
backport once few feedback...
Nicolas (kwizart)
5:25 p.m.
On 2010/11/02 7:12 AM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
rpmfusion-config-display is also affected by the crash, so we need
to
redesign it anyway.
I remember looking a while back for a replacement for
pyxf86config that
Ubuntu was using... I think it was XorgParser from X-Kit:
https://launchpad.net/x-kit
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