Feature request: support PCI_TXT_IDS_DIR feature in Xorg server
Bug #273129 reported by
Michael
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #261977: nv is chosen even if it doesn't support the card.
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Bug Description
X.org server 1.5 has a feature (PCI_TXT_IDS_DIR) that can be enabled in configure to specify a directory of files mapping PCI Ids to video card drivers - in fact this is one of the Debian-specific patches that is in Ubuntu 8.04, and has now been moved upstream. However it is now no longer used in Ubuntu, although the directory with the files is still supplied. This is needed in order to ship third party graphics drivers and have them be autoconfigured without fiddling with xorg.conf from a script, which is clearly bad (my use case is the VirtualBox guest graphics driver). It would be nice if you could give some response on this, specifically if I can expect to see it in 8.10 (even if the answer is no :-)
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