Setting up Nvidia Card

[James Tappin]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:03:47 -0800
Barry Premeaux <bpremeaux at gmail.com> wrote:

BP> I have an Nvidia 8500GT I was going to set up.  I planned on backing
BP> up the xorg.conf file so I could recover from the potential black
BP> screen.  But it seems that 9.1 doesn't use the xorg.conf file.
BP> 
BP> How do I set up a recovery plan, should I run into problems with the
BP> configuration?

As I recall, xorg.conf is optional these days, so when you set up for
the closed drivers it will create xorg.conf. Thus the recovery plan is
"sudo rm xorg.conf" (or sudo mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.bad).


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