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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

I took a look at how nvidia's own installer does its job. It works like it 
should, actually it's very nice. It can be told to run in command line 
without any menus, so it's pretty much out-of-the-box SMGL compatible. Also 
the spell is light as a butterfly when the complicated stuff is left for the 
installer to worry about. But...

The installer won't run in X if the nvidia module is already in use. This 
also 
brings another worry, because the installer has to be called from INSTALL, 
otherwise sorcery won't track what it installs. And when INSTALL is launched, 
a dispel has already taken place. So, if nvidia-installer then refuses 
cooperation, it leaves the user without nvidia_driver.

That could be avoided with a check to see if X is using nvidia. What would be 
the best way to do that?

Still, there's no business casting nvidia_driver in X. I tried to go around 
it, but even with --no-kernel-module it still won't let you install in X.

iuso