alternate xf86config

[Net Llama!]

On 01/01/2005 05:24 PM, Wade Barocsi wrote:
> Hi, and Happy New Year,
> 
> I just jumped to the modern era with a 2.6 series kernel.
> Libranet is a bit slow releasing, so I upgraded to
> a mix of libranet and debian"unstable".
> 
> The Nvidia driver (for 3d acceleration) locks up.
> I used the newest version and nvidia's installer, but can't seem
> to get it to work.

join the club.  I've yet to get any 3d love with my nvidia card.

> 
> I've given up (for now) on 3d with 2.6.7-1,
> How can I have 2 different configurations for xf86config-4 ?
> I'm using grub, perhaps some boot time voodo? or some other way
> to swich between "nv" and "nvidia" drivers between 2 kernels.

i don't believe that you can do that easily.  what i do is keep two 
copies of the config file (xorg.conf in my case), one with nv, and 
another with nvidia.

> 
> My son is a big tuxracer fan, so 3D becomes important.

sadly, i've never had a chance to try it.


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