On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 18:38 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
Bill Nottingham wrote:
>Philip Prindeville (philipp_subx(a)redfish-solutions.com) said:
>
>
>>Apologies if this has already been discussed and I missed it... I've
>>only been on the list a couple of months... and a quick search of
>>old messages didn't turn anything up.
>>
>>Could the X driver installation process write out the contents of
>>/etc/X11/XvMCConfig based on the driver module that has
>>been selected for the xorg.conf file?
>>
>>For instance, if you've selected the via drivers (in xorg 6.8.99.900
>>and later, for instance), then /etc/X11/XvMCConfig should contain:
>>
>>libviaXvMC.so
>>
>>or:
>>
>>libviaXvMCPro.so
>>
>>If you're using the NVidia drivers (from NVidia, and not the GPL
"nv"
>>drivers instead) you'd have:
>>
>>libXVMCNVIDIA.so
>>
>>for instance. Other cards might not offer support. I believe the Savage
>>cards do.
>>
>>Does this sound feasible?
>
>It sounds like dumb code. The driver already, from what you've posted,
>knows what the name of the module it uses is. So why on earth does it
>need a config file?
>
Because the client isn't statically linked to the library, and needs to
discover it dynamically at run-time.
A lot of X libraries contain both client-side and server-side functions.
libGL.so solved the exact same problem without resorting to a config
file. Perhaps you should file a bug in Xorg's bugzilla.
--
Nicholas Miell <nmiell(a)comcast.net>