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Re: X-Config...



On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:27:56AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:10:32 +0200, Andrea Venanzi wrote:
> > Hello! I have a Nvidia Geforce 5200, what driver and bus must I set in x-config in Debian 3.1r1 install?
> 
> Configuration should be more or less automatic when you install XFree86,
> using the packages "discover", "mdetect" and "xresprobe".  You can
> trigger this process again by running the following command as root:
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low xserver-xfree86
> 
> It should identify the card and propose to use the "nv" driver. You can
> then set your desired resolution(s). The bus address should be
> recognized automatically, so you can leave that field empty. If anything
> goes wrong you can use lspci to find out the bus address. Here is what I
> get:
> 
> $ lspci
> ...
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2)
> 
> so I would have to specify "PCI:1:0:0" (without the quotes). 

note though that the lspci output is in hex and the configuratOR (I
love that word) expects decimal. so for arguments sake, lscpi output
of 0000:01:0A.0 would require PCI:1:10:0 and so forth

A

> 
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> Regards,
>           Florian
> 
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