[Nix-dev] Video Driver Name Mismatch

[Michael Raskin]

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John Altobelli wrote:
> The problem is that if I enter the knownVideoDriver as radeonhd in
> configuration.nix, it goes to the radeonhd version 1.2.1 which does
> not have the xf86videoradeonhd_124 naming convention.  I basically
> changed the name xf86videoradeonhd to xf86videoradeonhd_121 and
> xf86videoradeonhd_124 to xf86videoradeonhd and the new version works
> flawlessly.  I notice that video-ati uses this naming convention, does
> this mean only the oldest version can be loaded?  I would think it
> should look for the newest version installed on the machine?

Default is the version from X.org release. The rest is provided for the
ease of using different types of override. I do not like the __override
solution, so I created the option for changing used driver in X job.
Look it up in my configuration.nix in configurations/

> On a side note, is it necessary to have every video in one nix file,
> eventually with all the versions this is going to give pretty big.

For most cards latest X.org is enough


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