Re: Fwd: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf?
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> From: Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 3:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf?
>
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 01:54:31PM +0800, Jianjun Mao wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Patrick Bartek
> <bartek047@yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Just installed the proprietary nvidia driver on Wheezy 64-bit using
> the
>> > dkms method as outlined in the Nvidia Debian wiki. No problems,
> except I
>> > haven't got it working yet. But was wondering: Is it possible
> for the
>> > nvidia driver to work without using an xorg.conf? Nouveau does.
>> >
>> > FYI: I'm not running a gui environment, just a window
> manager--Openbox.
>> > System first boots to a terminal, login, startx. Very minimal.
>>
>> I have the same problem.
>> It seems that X will not use nvidia driver without any settings.
>> So I simply run nvidia-xconfig to generate a new xorg.conf for
>> nvidia....
>
> So the wiki is wrong, incomplete, or out of date?
The one I used (http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers) was last updated Jan 2013. So, it's reasonably current. (Other wikis I've read on the subject, primarily Arch and Gentoo, are not as current.)
The Debian wiki listed several methods to enabe the nvidia driver, including nvidia-xconfig. It also cautioned against using it due to a bug. I can find no reference to the bug being fixed. So, I've opted for writing my own minimal xorg.conf or using the output of Xorg -configure as a template and making the recommended changes and additions: this week's project.
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