Comment 17 for bug 522061

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 522061] Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers fallback test failed

Chad A. Davis [2011-03-24 21:49 -0000]:
> I tested Matin's suggestion. The fallback works properly if
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf is simply not present.

Thanks. That's actually kind of surprising, as in the past we at least
needed to set DisplayDepth to 24, and some other bits.

> The only (minor) disadvantage is that the nVidia splash screen displays
> (for <1 second) when it loads, because the 'Option "NoLogo" "True"' is
> no longer being read from the non-existant xorg.conf

Right. Perhaps you could do the same test again, but this time don't
remove xorg.conf entirely, but just drop the Driver option and leave
the other bits in place?