Re: [gentoo-user] hal, how to chose between nvidia and nv

[Arnau Bria]

On Wed,  4 Nov 2009 11:17:15 +0000
Peter Haworth wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:52:45 +0100, =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?=
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:08:26 +0100, Arnau Bria <arnau@×××××××××.net>
> > wrote:
> > > Am Iworng or my xorg uses nv driver? if so, how may I force hal
> > > to use nvidia driver? what about dri module? why is it failling
> > > to load it?
> >
> > This is only one of the reasons (only one of them) why hal in X is
> > as useless as it can get: if you use any driver that's not provided
> > by the Xorg guys then you still need an xorg.conf.
>
> True, but it doesn't need much in it. I'm not generally a hal
> apologist, but I'm quite happy with this as my entire xorg.conf:
>
>   Section "Device"
>     Identifier     "Device0"
>     Driver         "nvidia"
>     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>   EndSection
tried with only that section, it hangs and had to reboot.... X was
really slow and log showed errors like:

(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000d384, 0x0000d384)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000d3a8, 0x0000d3a8)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000d3cc, 0x0000d3cc)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (0, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000d3f0, 0x0000d3f0)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized AGP GART.

So, I'll stay with nv.... or try xorg with no hal support.

Thanks for your replies!

-- 
Arnau Bria
http://blog.emergetux.net
Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity