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On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:45:56AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> One of the things xinit does is look for the variable XSESSION. If set, it |
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> will read the contents of it and try and run that as an X session. There are |
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> no real pluses and minuses to either way. If you admin a huge box with many |
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> users, you might want to set a default of Gnome for everyone, and let users |
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> change it if they want in their home dir. If this is your personal machine, |
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> there is one user - you - and the setting is best done in your home dir (most |
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> howtos on the net will refer to this method). |
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Thanks. This looks like one of those situations where "if you have to |
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ask about it, you don't need it". This is a home machine, so no need to |
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get fancy. I'll leave things as is. |
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> > 4) Speaking of /etc/make.conf, there was some news about Radeon HD |
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> > cards being moved to a separate driver group and requiring a change in |
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> > /etc/make.conf. I'm using a card from an older computer, which lspci |
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> > shows as... |
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> > ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) |
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> > Since X is working, I assume that my card is not a member of the Radeon |
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> > HD family. My /etc/make.conf includes the lines... |
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> > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" |
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> > VIDEO_CARDS="intel vga" |
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> Hmmm. I'd say your X is running on the vga driver. What driver is actually |
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> loaded as per Xorg.0.log? |
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(II) LoadModule: "radeon" |
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(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so |
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(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation" |
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compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.12.1 |
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Module class: X.Org Video Driver |
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ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1 |
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...and from the command line... |
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waltdnes@d530 ~ $ lsmod |
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Module Size Used by |
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radeon 125984 1 |
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scsi_wait_scan 1152 0 |
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intel_agp 23172 1 |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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