[ale] xorg.conf

Dow Hurst Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Sun Apr 3 19:25:28 EDT 2005


The nv driver is normally not the nvidia driver but the driver 
distributed by X.org or XFree that only does 2D well.  Sucks at 3D.  You 
have to install the nvidia driver from nvidia.com and use "nvidia" in 
your X config file not "nv".
That is what I've always had to do.
Dow


Christopher Fowler wrote:

>I've got my Xorg built and running but I can't seem to figure out how to
>get the resolution to work at 1024x768.
>
>Section "ServerLayout"
>        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>EndSection
> 
>Section "Files"
>        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>EndSection
> 
>Section "Module"
>        Load  "extmod"
>        Load  "glx"
>        Load  "dri"
>        Load  "dbe"
>        Load  "record"
>        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/mouse"
>EndSection
> 
>Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier   "Monitor0"
>        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
>EndSection
> 
>Section "Device"
>        ### Available Driver options are:-
>        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>        ### [arg]: arg optional
>        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "HWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
>        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
>        #Option     "FlatPanel"                 # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "FPDither"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "CrtcNumber"                # <i>
>        #Option     "FPScale"                   # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "FPTweak"                   # <i>
>        Identifier  "Card0"
>        Driver      "nv"
>        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
>        BoardName   "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200 Ultra]"
>        BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
>EndSection
> 
>Section "Screen"
>        Identifier "Screen0"
>        Device     "Card0"
>        Monitor    "Monitor0"
>        SubSection "Display"
>                #Viewport   0 0
>                Depth     16
>                Modes     "1280x1024"
>        EndSubSection
>EndSection
>
>
>This was generated by Xorg -config
>
>Can someone tell me what is wrong?
>
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