Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Sami Näätänen" <sn.ml@××××××××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:02:14
Message-Id: 200904121202.10399.sn.ml@keijukammari.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver by Martin Herrman
1 On Sunday 12 April 2009 11:40:27 Martin Herrman wrote:
2 > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Saphirus Sage
3 <saphirus497@×××××.com>wrote:
4 > > Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
5 > > >> Option "SHMConfig" "True"
6 > >
7 > > Option "SHMConfig" "enable"
8 >
9 > That's a difference (but I don't know if both are correct or not).
10 >
11 > FYI, I just did some trial-and-error and after emerging the evdev driver
12 > (btw, I'm using HAL), I could minimize my config to:
13 >
14 > ==================
15 >
16 > Section "Monitor"
17 > Identifier "S2231W"
18 > HorizSync 31-65
19 > VertRefresh 59-61
20 > EndSection
21 >
22 > Section "Device"
23 > Identifier "Asus EAH3650"
24 > VendorName "Asus"
25 > BoardName "EAH3650"
26 > Driver "radeonhd"
27 > EndSection
28 >
29 > Section "Screen"
30 > Identifier "Screen 1"
31 > Device "Asus EAH3650"
32 > Monitor "S2231W"
33 > DefaultDepth 24
34 > Subsection "Display"
35 > Depth 24
36 > Modes "1280x1050"
37 > ViewPort 0 0
38 > EndSubsection
39 > EndSection
40 >
41 > Section "ServerLayout"
42 > Identifier "Simple Layout"
43 > Screen "Screen 1"
44 > EndSection
45 >
46 > ==============
47 >
48 > I even tried to start without any config, but then it tries to load the
49 > 'ati' driver, which is not available.
50
51 I experienced this also with NVidia card and adding the Device section wa
52 enough.
53
54 I also added one to my keyboard as it was not recogniced properly.
55
56 MY xorg.conf:
57 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
58 Section "InputDevice"
59 Identifier "Keyboard0"
60 Driver "kbd"
61 Option "XkbModel" "logielite"
62 Option "XkbLayout" "fi"
63 EndSection
64
65 Section "Device"
66
67 #Option "backingstore" "true"
68 ### Available Driver options are:-
69 ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
70 ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
71 ### [arg]: arg optional
72 Identifier "Card0"
73 Driver "nvidia"
74 VendorName "XFT"
75 BoardName "XFT GeForce 8800 GTX XXX Version"
76 Option "HWcursor" "true" # [<bool>]
77 Option "RenderAccel" "true" # [<bool>]
78 Option "CursorShadow" "true" # [<bool>]
79 Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "64" # <i>
80 Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "3" # <i>
81 Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "3" # <i>
82 Option "UseEdidFreqs" "true" # [<bool>]
83 Option "XvMCUsesTextures" "true" # [<bool>]
84 Option "Coolbits" "1"
85 Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
86 Option "SLI" "off"
87 Option "UseEdidDpi" "true"
88 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
89 EndSection
90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------