Comment 1 for bug 1025315
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: Get some recommended/alternatives info from a driver | #1 |
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Please note that the u-drivers API can only make some guesswork about "recommended" for the various proprietary nvidia driver versions (-96, -173, and -current). For nouveau vs. nvidia, or ati vs. fglrx there is no real recommendation, as they both have different strengths and weaknesses.
I don't know what an "alternative" driver should mean, this needs clarification from design.
I can work out whether there is a manually installed driver up to some degree of reliability.
As for "not working", and to some degree "alternative driver", the API can return a boolean flag about "if this driver is not installed, there will be a free driver taking over", which would be true for nvidia/fglrx, and false for bcmwl. Would that satisfy the requirement?