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Bug#697146: xserver-xorg script forces vboxvideo even if virtualbox guest additions are not installed



On Tue, Jan  1, 2013 at 21:11:44 -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:

> > When it finds the PCI ID of the vbox graphic card, it wrongly assumes
> > that the vboxvideo driver is installed, which it may not be true.
> > 
> > Then it creates (or an already created configuration file is copied) a
> > file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d which basically forces X to load that driver.
> 
> Not sure how Xorg would automatically handle that for fglrx and nvidia.
> I always thought for those cases you needed to manually intervene, or
> else the free drivers would be used instead. So I gather this code has
> something to do with that.
> 
That's correct.  However for other drivers you'd better leave the config
empty.

Cheers,
Julien

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