Aaron Griffin schrieb:

That seems way too complicated. What's wrong with just conflicting like normal? Can you think of any standard case where these conflicts are going to hurt us?

Which packages contain drm.ko?

kernel26

Am Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:28:18 -0600 schrieb Aaron Griffin :

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

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Aaron Griffin schrieb:

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That seems way too complicated. What's wrong with just conflicting like normal? Can you think of any standard case where these conflicts are going to hurt us?

Which packages contain drm.ko?

kernel26

So then simply putting this one in the updates directory should be enough, right?

I haven't seen any problem so far with the module in extra. It has been always loaded first. I can't imagine a situation where the module in extra could cause an issue. You usually use drm only with one graphic card driver. But I'll read around a bit how kernel modules get loaded and how other distributions do this. Building a drm-git providing _all_ possible drm modules is much more than we want here. Putting it into extra or update path should be enough here. I'll try to find out what's the recommended/best way we should go. -Andy

Am Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:11:22 +0100 schrieb Thomas Bächler :

Andreas Radke schrieb:

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I haven't seen any problem so far with the module in extra. It has been always loaded first. I can't imagine a situation where the module in extra could cause an issue. You usually use drm only with one graphic card driver.

If you install this package it might happen that a drm driver from kernel26 is loaded together with drm.ko from your package, which might be incompatible.

This shouldn't happen. People will only install it when they want to use the nouveau module in their xorg.conf

To ensure it is loaded first, you must put it in updates/, putting it in extra works purely out of coincidence.

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Putting it into extra or update path should be enough here. I'll try to find out what's the recommended/best way we should go.

Put at least drm.ko in extra.

[andyrtr@workstation64 ~]$ pacman -Ql nouveau-drm nouveau-drm /lib/ nouveau-drm /lib/modules/ nouveau-drm /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/ nouveau-drm /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/extra/ nouveau-drm /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/extra/drm.ko nouveau-drm /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/kernel/ nouveau-drm /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/kernel/drivers/ nouveau-drm /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/ nouveau-drm /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/kernel/drivers/video/nouveau.ko nouveau-drm /usr/ nouveau-drm /usr/include/ nouveau-drm /usr/include/nouveau_drm.h so you're fine with this? I couldn't find something about the module load order here ( http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/ ) or somewhere else so I expect the module to get loaded in alphabetical order: /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/extra/drm.ko /lib/modules/2.6.28-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko Not sure if the kernel, Xorg or udev does the loading here. -Andy