Option to disable XVidMode

[Ove Kaaven]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Francois Gouget wrote:

>    It might still be nice to automatically detect such buggy drivers and
> then either completely disable XVidMode, or ignore such modelines. Can
> we get three modelines with just one such invalid modeline in the
> middle? In the example I got there was only one modeline anyway.

I think a buggy driver is likely to give invalid data for all modelines.

> > I don't think such a server exists. There's either XFree86 4.x with
> > loadable driver modules, or there's XFree86-SVGA 3.x. The latter sounds
> > more likely to have this kind of bug.
> 
>    Yes, I meant the SVGA driver of XFree86 4.1.0 (from Debian SID).

That still doesn't exist.

ovek at acroyali:~$ ls /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers
apm_drv.o        fbdev_drv.o  neomagic_drv.o       tdfx_drv.o
ark_drv.o        glide_drv.o  nv_drv.o             tga_drv.o
ati_drv.o        glint_drv.o  r128_drv.o           trident_drv.o
atimisc_drv.o    i128_drv.o   radeon_drv.o         tseng_drv.o
chips_drv.o      i740_drv.o   rendition_drv.o      vesa_drv.o
cirrus_alpine.o  i810_drv.o   s3virge_drv.o        vga_drv.o
cirrus_drv.o     imstt_drv.o  savage_drv.o         vmware_drv.o
cirrus_laguna.o  linux        siliconmotion_drv.o
cyrix_drv.o      mga_drv.o    sis_drv.o

There's no svga driver there. However...

ovek at acroyali:~$ apt-cache show xserver-svga
Package: xserver-svga
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 3236
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: xfree86v3
Version: 3.3.6-38
Replaces: xbase (<< 3.3.2.1-1)
Provides: xserver
Depends: debconf, xserver-common-v3 (>= 3.3.6-17), libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2),
zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3)
Filename: pool/main/x/xfree86v3/xserver-svga_3.3.6-38_i386.deb
Size: 1350144
MD5sum: 0a96d8350bd9fe9a0ca0f2ef67d51f0c
Description: X server for SVGA graphics cards

does exist in Debian sid, mostly for users with cards not supported by
XFree86 4.x - but it's clearly 3.3.6, not 4.1. All the XF86 4.x stuff is
in xserver-xfree86.