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On 12/04/12 02:43, Dale wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 12/04/12 01:55, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Somewhat related question. I use the Nvidia drivers here and have not |
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>>> had any issues in a while. How does one use VESA if the Nvidia drivers |
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>>> fail? One used to change it in xorg.conf but most don't have a |
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>>> xorg.conf any more. |
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>> You have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory though. You can put |
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>> snippets in it with the *.conf extension and X.Org will read it when it |
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>> starts. For my GPU setting for example, I use |
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>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/gpu.conf. It has a "Device" section in with: |
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>> Driver "nvidia" |
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>> This can be changed to "vesa" at any time. |
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> So basically it is done the same way. If you don't have a *.conf file, |
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> just create one and chose vesa. I was thinking this had changed and I |
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> missed it. I guess I haven't missed anything. Weird. lol |
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The thing that changed is that X.Org was unable to pick defaults in the |
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absence of a config file. Obviously you need a way to change the |
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settings if the defaults are wrong for you. This hasn't and, obviously, |
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will not change. |
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