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From: Mike Mazur <mmazur@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:28:34
Message-Id: 184110a70907310728rabe1e0cvcdd4d92d2d45f3ed@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards) by Dale
1 Hi,
2
3 On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:23, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > Mike Mazur wrote:
5 >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:44, Fernando Antunes<fs.antunes@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >>>  I don't use xorg.conf in my notebook Lenovo T61, Intel 965GSM , xorg and
7 >>> xfce ~x86, gentoo 2.6.30 with KMS, anymore.
8 >>>   Both kernel and X switch to 1280x800 resolution automatically, xinerama is
9 >>> disable.
10 >>>
11 >> Interesting, so you don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all?
12 >>
13 > If you have hal enabled and xorg-server-1.5 or higher, then you don't
14 > have to have a xorg.conf file.  This is from what I have read.  I have
15 > yet to get that hal thing to work here.
16 >
17 > If you are still on the old xorg-server then you have to have a
18 > xorg.conf file.
19
20 I tried this earlier, running startx without an /etc/X11/xorg.conf in
21 place, but X didn't start. The error message was something along the
22 lines of "No screen found."
23
24 I'm running:
25 - x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6
26 - x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2
27 - sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r9
28
29 Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards) Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@×××××.com>