Other distros patch xorg to autoload nvidia driver if card is present. This allows using an nvidia card without an xorg.conf. I suggest applying the patch to gentoo's xorg-server as well Reproducible: Always The patch from arch https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/autoconfig-nvidia.patch?h=packages/xorg-server applies cleanly. Ebuild for xorg-server-1.13.1 must be modified as follows: --- /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.13.1.ebuild 2013-01-21 03:01:33.000000000 +0100 +++ /usr/local/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.13.1.ebuild 2013-03-22 07:40:10.106479549 +0100 @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ "${UPSTREAMED_PATCHES[@]}" "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.12-disable-acpi.patch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.13-ia64-asm.patch + "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-autoconfig-nvidia.patch ) pkg_pretend() {
> Other distros patch I won't comment on patch policies of Arch or other distros. x11 team is not keen on maintaining patches to our packages indefinitely, but we will consider backporting the patch after it has been merged upstream. Note that a similar change was already rejected by upstream a while ago: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037098.html
I see, thanks for your time.
