Bug#671172: [xserver-xorg-video-nouveau] Flightgear buffer flush fails, freezing system
On 2012-05-02 17:22 +0200, David Baron wrote:
> The card does work perfectly with the regular nvidia package on Sid, not the
> 173 legacy.
Ah right, the legacy drivers are only needed on GeForce 5xxx.
> What I would really like to do is choose the nvidia or nouveau at boot time.
> Would involve copying xorg.conf versions, a modprob.d blacklist, and setting
> alternatives for glx and libGL.
I would not use modprobe blacklists, but rather boot with "nomodeset" if
you want to use the blob. Then you can write your own init script that
greps for nomodeset in /proc/cmdline and sets up the alternatives and
xorg.conf accordingly.
Unfortunately, update-grub does not make it easy to specify alternative
boot options¹. :-(
Cheers,
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470398
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