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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:46:55 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> You could also try the VESA drivers, slow but reliable. |
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>> OK. How do I do the VESA drivers? Honestly, the only trouble I can |
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>> recall out of nvidia was upgrading the kernel then rebooting and |
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>> realizing I forgot to rebuild against the new kernel. I don't recall |
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>> every having anything like this. The biggest GUI problem I can recall |
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>> was hal and xorg. Let's not go down that road.< dale starts to steam |
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>> Is VESA a kernel option or some package I need to install? |
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> It's the standard video driver, x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa |
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And I change nvidia to vesa or do I need to unmerge nvidia first? |
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Also, are these done as modules like nvidia is? Hmmm, if I remove |
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xorg.conf, how does it know which driver to use? |
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The more I find out, the more questions I have. That's normal tho. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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