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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:46:43PM +0300, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> 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.
 
I really dislike spells requiring/disallowing a running X. nvidia_driver
is in z-rejected though, so the rules for what spells are allowed to do
are more relaxed. I'd prefer if it could be made to work without
requiring quitting X, but since actually upgrading the _running_ driver
will definitely require a restart of X, it wouldn't be too bad (for a
z-rejected spell, don't want to see such things in the main grimoire ;)

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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