On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 01:13 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > 2009/6/8 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:24 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > >> On 06/08/2009 01:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > .. > > > > take a look at hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c in the X server > > source. That's where autodetection is done, you can see how it works. > > Basically, ranges of PCI IDs, or single IDs, are mapped to specific > > drivers. > BTW, Is there a way to have theses PCI ID mapped to another drivers > without having the whole Xorg-server recompiled ? > For example, if I want to fork nouveau for some reason, to be renamed > new173xx or whatever, > Is there a way to map some selected PCI ID to this driver without > changing xf86AutoConfig.c at compile time ? I don't think there is, no. I don't think any provision is made for overriding it via some external tool (other than writing an xorg.conf file). But I'm sure the X gurus will correct me if I'm wrong. :) We really want to avoid these cases of having six drivers for one chip. There should be _one_ driver for each chip... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
