Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

[Fernando Antunes]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Mike Mazur <mmazur@×××××.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:23, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Mike Mazur wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:44, Fernando Antunes<fs.antunes@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> >>>  I don't use xorg.conf in my notebook Lenovo T61, Intel 965GSM , xorg
> and
> >>> xfce ~x86, gentoo 2.6.30 with KMS, anymore.
> >>>   Both kernel and X switch to 1280x800 resolution automatically,
> xinerama is
> >>> disable.
> >>>
> >> Interesting, so you don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all?
> >>
> > If you have hal enabled and xorg-server-1.5 or higher, then you don't
> > have to have a xorg.conf file.  This is from what I have read.  I have
> > yet to get that hal thing to work here.
> >
> > If you are still on the old xorg-server then you have to have a
> > xorg.conf file.
>
> I tried this earlier, running startx without an /etc/X11/xorg.conf in
> place, but X didn't start. The error message was something along the
> lines of "No screen found."
>
> I'm running:
> - x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6
> - x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2
> - sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r9
>

Iḿ running :

xorg-server :  1.6.2-r1
x11 :  7.4
hal :  0.5.13-r2
kernel : 2.6.30-gentoo-r4
x11-video-intel :  2.8.0





>
> Mike
>
>