FS#21330 - [xf86-video-nv] should conflict with nouveau and blacklist nouveau kernel module

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Nathanael Schaeffer (john_schaf) - Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 09:11 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 30 April 2011, 18:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: xf86-video-nv does not work if you don't blacklist nouveau kernel module.
So I would suggest to add a file /etc/modprobe.d/ to do so, and to conflict with xf86-video-nouveau.

Steps to reproduce:
Install xf86-video-nv and use it.

PS: On my nvidia card, nouveau is sluggish, so I need to use the nv driver.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 30 April 2011, 18:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Devs decision: it's up to the user to either use one single driver pkg or how to handle them properly together. Nothing needed to be done on the packaging side.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 13:15 GMT
blacklisting the kernel module seem to make sense to me though a post.install note should be enough. conflicting with another driver pkg isn't needed to me, some people want to switch around the drivers.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 13:25 GMT
This is not the way we should go. Installing a random Xorg driver does not mean that you can't use the other installed driver. For nvidia, you have 3 options right now:
xf86-video-nv
xf86-video-nouveau
nvidia-utils

These 3 packages can be installed side-by-side without conflicts and configuration of this is up to the user. IMHO installing the -nv driver should not exclude -nouveau from working. At this moment the nvidia driver configures it as default driver for any videochip, which should not be that way. We should patch xorg-server instead to use nvidia and nouveau as fallbacks with autoconfiguration instead of setting a default driver that enables itself whenever you install it.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 30 October 2010, 15:47 GMT
assigning also to the nvidia package maintainers.

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