-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2010-01-11 at 08:46 +0100, Clayton wrote:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.nv:
Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Driver "nv" EndSection
thats all it has. Simple :-)
Ah cool. Thanks for the tip Carlos.... I'd forgotten that you could do that (I rarely ever use anything but the proprietary drivers).
Me, I always used the open driver, except when I want to use a game with 3D. Unfortunately, my new machine is unable to hibernate with the open (nv) driver. The problem is that the first time I switched to the proprietary driver, my gnome desktop drove me nuts: windows "wobbled" when I moved them. I thought the display was using a terribly slow refresh or redraw speed; perhaps I had been had with my shiny big new display. I fought the problem for an hour or two. Suddenly I hit ctrl-alt-right to change to another workspace and I saw "the" cube rotating... all was clear. Suse guys have enabled compiz by default, but it is inactive till you put a capable driver in. I had to remove completely the compiz rpms from the system. I could not find a master switch to just disable compiz. Novell says it is very easy (I wrote a bugzilla on this issue which they disregarded succinctly), but it mustn't be that easy when there is a wiki page on how to disable compiz... :-( I recogn, though, that it has never been so easy to enable the nvidia driver before. That's a good thing. Just enable the repo, update, done. Works! Such a difference from a decade ago... And I did not have to configure xorg.conf, either. I suppose my machines are easy, or I was lucky.
The fact that your xorg.conf need only contain the customizations on top of the autodetect bit is an important one to note for those with the odd hardware combos that do require some manual intervention..
Absolutely. We'll probably need a new tool to do that, though. I don't like leaving this to the user on the desktop: it should be done by the administrator, for all users and all possible desktop choices. And it can not be Sax. For technical reasons I don't fully understand, but the thing is, keyboard and mouse is out of the direct control of the X system, it comes from... was it hal? Therefore, Sax can do nought on that side. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktLeNYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UlBgCfQaVwOPB0u3wYZPs1ogfSU6lS b0MAoI3DnZGuvBobBCrpfw4FdeP3alVV =cQNB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----