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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by ddevault on Sunday July 07, 2019 @02:54PM (#20376989)
If this check were not here, Nvidia would still not work. This serves to reduce our bug report volume. However, by deleting these few lines of code (or specifying the appropriate command line argument), Nvidia could work tomorrow if they shipped GBM support.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by rrss on Sunday July 07, 2019 @03:03PM (#20377051)
If that check were not there, would intel for display + nvidia for compute work? Better chance than now.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by Sir_Cmpwn on Sunday July 07, 2019 @03:05PM (#20377075)
The flag is there for you to override if you think you know better. We don't answer questions or provide support for any use-case with the proprietary driver.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by dTal on Sunday July 07, 2019 @04:35PM (#20377665)
Refusing to run if a particular kernel module is loaded (even if you don't touch it at all) is overstepping. You should at least provide an override flag.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by Shelnutt2 on Sunday July 07, 2019 @04:48PM (#20377747)
There is an override flag, its linked in the code snippet.

Use "--unsupported-gpu" or "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" to bypass the check and allow sway to launch.

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by dTal on Sunday July 07, 2019 @07:01PM (#20378560)
Ah, er, jolly good then. Carry on.
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