Re: Xorg does not detect nvidia card
The issue, Andrzej, is that Lenny is not autodetecting anything at all. Everything in 'xorg.conf' is generic, the nv driver is not activated, nor is any other driver. I'm asking for a way to force the activation.
- Chris; Rochester, New York
--- On Sun, 3/22/09, Andrzej Mendel <andrzej.mendel@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Andrzej Mendel <andrzej.mendel@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Xorg does not detect nvidia card
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 7:00 AM
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> Chris "Bigguy" pisze:
> > Under Etch this worked fine with a minor modification
> but...
> > under Lenny, clean install on Power Mac G4, the
> contents of the file
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf indicate only generic devices are
> employed for
> keyboard, mouse, video and monitor. The install
> should have detected my
> Nvidia GeForce 2 MX card and allowed me to edit the item
> that was
> problematic under Etch.
> >
> > How can I force Lenny to detect the video card and
> monitor, as Etch did?
> >
> > - Chris; Rochester, New York
> Lenny's Xserver is supposed to autodetect devices at
> runtime which
> means that there is no need to define them in xorg.conf as
> long as
> autodetection does it job well. You may modify xorg.cong if
> you wish
> to override autodetection results.
>
> - --
> Cheers!
> Andrzej Mendel
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