smxi svmi sgfxi :: feature requests

[techAdmin]

No, sorry, if it's not a deb I don't want to deal with trying to track it.

[miks]

OK, thanks anyway...

[Tametomo]

For sgfxmi, how about a choice as to use proprietary or native drivers if kernel version 2.6.33 is detected? For instance, being able to use the noveau drivers instead of nvidia, or if ati, use the proprietary ati driver or the native linux driver.

This might be worth attempting now, since as of 2.6.33, there should be native video drivers right in the kernel itself for the cards that users have. Also, providing an option to use an open driver already in the kernel in sgfxmi might help some users reduce the need for users to reinstall their kernel drivers on upgrading their kernels.

EDIT: If this is already done, what isn't is at least giving an option to use the open source driver in the driver version selection for Sidux. In which case, this can be addressed rather easily. ;)

[techAdmin]

The smxi graphics section already offers default xorg drivers, but it only offers nv, intel, or ati.

ati is now radeon automatically I believe, I'm not sure if it includes radeonhd.

Nouveau is a huge pain to deal with, and removing it can also be a huge pain, as I discovered this week while I was doing some sgfxi testing work on it for Fedora and Arch. I'll have to do some testing on Debian/Ubuntu as well for installing/removing nouveau/radeonhd, hopefully it won't be too difficult.

These in kernel drivers are difficult to remove from a running system, but as they get more common I'll probably change nv to nouveau as the default, but it's not easy at all to modify that part of smxi, in fact, it's very very difficult.

But I appreciate the compliment anyway, I'm always happy when very complex logic appears to be simple, that was always a major goal of smxi and sgfxi.