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From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@×××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@×××××.fr>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel panics and more info
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:03:46
Message-Id: 20110722082227.GA2389@nicolas-desktop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info by Neil Bothwick
1 The 21/07/11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:14:11 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 > > > It's the standard video driver, x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa
5 >
6 > > And I change nvidia to vesa or do I need to unmerge nvidia first?
7 >
8 > If you keep xorg.conf, change it to use vesa.
9
10 Or move it to /root.
11
12 > > Also, are these done as modules like nvidia is? Hmmm, if I
13 > > remove xorg.conf, how does it know which driver to use?
14 >
15 > Hardware detection. If you don't use third party drivers, you can usually
16 > do without an xorg.conf.
17
18 Or just read /var/log/Xorg.0.log after started X.
19
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21 Nicolas Sebrecht