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On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: |
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> 2011/10/16 Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>: |
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> > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: |
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> That probably confirms it's not a gnome issue. The cursor is an X |
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> thing, in any case. |
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> >> Also, did you update the driver (whatever it is) recently? |
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> > Ah. I synched yesterday, and a massive number of packages were updated, |
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> > among them xorg-drivers. That'll be it, I suppose. |
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> That package is kind of a wrapper around the driver packages, which |
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> are many. You install xorg-drivers as a dependency of xorg-server, and |
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> depending on your VIDEO_CARDS settings in make.conf the relevant |
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> driver packages are also pushed as dependencies into your system. |
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My setting is 'VIDEO_CARDS="radeonhd radeon"'. I've got two there |
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because I was never sure which one was the right one. I've got a card |
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based on a Radeon HD4550 ;-( |
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> > Presumably I can configure these drivers somewhere, perhaps in |
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> > ~/.xinitrc? Is there any documentation for this? |
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> Let us know what your driver is ... |
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Not quite sure what you mean here. Do you mean my VIDEO_CARDS? Other |
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than that, I've got two binary blobs in my kernel, radeon/R600_rlc.bin |
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and radeon/R700_rlc.bin. (Again, I'm not sure which is the correct one.) |
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> ... so we can give more concrete details. But video drivers, just like |
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> any other thing that's part of X, can be configured at |
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> /etc/X11/xorg.conf or, more recently, in separate files under |
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> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. |
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I'll go for a monolithic config rather than a fragmented one. :-) |
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> Some drivers (like, again, the nvidia binary one) do ship tools that |
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> can help you configure the driver by writing to these files via a GUI |
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> frontend. The concrete options that you can put into this files depend |
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> on the concrete driver. For example, the man page for my driver |
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> (xf86-video-ati) can be seen by using |
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> # man radeon |
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> There I can see all the available options. |
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> If you let us know what driver are you using, then maybe someone who's |
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> familiar with your driver can provide you with more accurate help. |
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> -- |
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> Jesús Guerrero Botella |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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