[PLUG] Need Help Starting X on Rebuilt Box

Paul Mullen pm at nellump.net
Tue Sep 11 07:57:40 UTC 2007


On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:23:39PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> I downloaded the nVidia driver from their web site and will install
> it tomorrow morning.

That shouldn't be necessary. I, too, have a nearly identical setup,
and X.org works just fine with the "stock" open driver. FWIW, I've
attached my xorg.conf. There's nothing special about it--it's what X
created via its '-configure' option.

-- 
Paul
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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/etc/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
  FontPath     "unix/:7100"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
	FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "GLcore"
	Load  "xtrap"
  Load  "type1"
  Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "nv"
	VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
	BoardName   "C51PV [GeForce 6150]"
	BusID       "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection



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