system-config-display in F12 Beta fails with nouveau/Nvidia FX5200

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Tue Oct 27 06:02:07 UTC 2009


On 10/26/2009 09:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 08:20 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> I installed F12 Beta from scratch, and X11 was installed on my 1280x1024
>> screen correctly (Video card Nvidia FX5200) with the nouveau driver.
>>
>> Now I tried to install a new xorg.conf by using system-config-display
>> (for experimental reasons), but it failed with and without the
>> --reconfig option.
>>
>> Somebody made similar experiences?
>
> system-config-display has its own auto-detection logic which is not the
> same as X.org's. For most cards it gets the same result, but not all.
> For NVIDIA cards, s-c-d will give you a config that tries to use the
> 'nv' driver, not 'nouveau'. This fails because the nouveau kernel driver
> gets loaded automatically on boot, and nv won't work as long as the
> nouveau kernel module is loaded.
>
> If you just change the 'nv' in the xorg.conf to 'nouveau' it ought to
> work. I'll update your bug to explain the problem (and provide a patch,
> if I'm un-lazy enough).

Hi Adam,

this may be OK, but, rather weird,  my system contains *no* xorg.conf, 
but it is fully running with the Gnome desktop. How to modify a 
no-existing file :-)
>


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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes


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