Xorg tries to autoconfigure nv even if it's not available

[seidler2547]

I made a thinstation image which does not contain nv, but nouveau. However, when booted on PCs with nVidia graphics, Xorg tries to autoconfigure using the nv driver, which is not available.

As a workaround, I've done this hack, which works well, but I'm still wondering why it would autoconfigure nv if it's not even available.

diff --git a/ts/5.1/packages/xorg7/etc/init.d/xconf b/ts/5.1/packages/xorg7/etc/init.d/xconf
index 142e33d..cb94fb0 100755
--- a/ts/5.1/packages/xorg7/etc/init.d/xconf
+++ b/ts/5.1/packages/xorg7/etc/init.d/xconf
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ device_ ()
                done
        done

+       if [ -z "$X_DRIVER_NAME" ] && [ -e /sys/module/nouveau ] ; then
+               X_DRIVER_NAME="nouveau"
+       fi
+
        if [ -n "$X_DRIVER_NAME" ] || [ -n "$X_DRIVER_BUSID" ] || [ -s /tmp/x_Device ]; then
        CONF=/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/07-device.conf
                                                echo -e "Section \"Device\""                    > $CONF

[diger74]

You can also try to use both of module nvidia and xorg package nvidia.

Remove all the nv or nouveau modules and just leave only this line to your machine's module.list module nvidia

And uncomment only one nvidia xorg package: package xorg7-nvidia

Once I've migrated from nouveau to proprietar nvidai package I had no problems with their graphic cards at all.

[seidler2547]

Well, yes, but since nouveau works very well also with dual monitors etc. I do not want to switch to nvidia. The main question is why Xorg is even trying to use nv, not nouveau. Xorg -configure doesn't even list nv as a driver, yet tries to use it??

[Thinstation]

Funky xorg thing. Nice hack. I'll share it.