Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

["Peter Haworth" <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>]

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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:52:45 +0100, =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:08:26 +0100, Arnau Bria <arnau@emergetux.net> wrote:
> > Am Iworng or my xorg uses nv driver? if so, how may I force hal to use
> > nvidia driver? what about dri module? why is it failling to load it?
> 
> This is only one of the reasons (only one of them) why hal in X is as
> useless as it can get: if you use any driver that's not provided by the
> Xorg guys then you still need an xorg.conf.

True, but it doesn't need much in it. I'm not generally a hal apologist,
but I'm quite happy with this as my entire xorg.conf:

  Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
  EndSection

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