nvidia driver enabling in 11.04?
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 05:18:17 UTC 2011
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 08:47 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
> > On 04/08/11 16:13, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 15:07 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > >> choked.ca/nvidia.png
> > > cd into /etc/X11 and check what your xorg.conf file contains. It
> > > should show that the driver is set to nvidia. Like this:
> > > Section "Device"
> > > Identifier "Configured Video Device"
> > > Driver "nvidia"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > If you ain't got that, then for about the nth time this week, just
> > > crank up nvidia X Server Settings, and let it save
> > > your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >
>
> No, but X still parses xorg.conf and uses the parameters therein to
> overide what it guesses, which is handy for when it guesses wrong. That
> feature of NVidia's 'X Server Settings' is there for precisely that
> reason.
Thankfully, we still have that, too! :) Ric
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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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