Re: Nvidia Driver Working [Was: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf]
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:13:58 -0700 (PDT)
Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, that was easy: Just created, since there wasn't one by
> default, an xorg.conf per instructions in the Debian Nvidia wiki
>
> ==============================
> Section "Module"
> Load "glx"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "EVGA GeForce 8400GS"
> Driver "nvidia"
> EndSection
> ==============================
>
> and it worked!
>
> Now all I have to do is tweak the settings, and figure out how to
> increase the size of the terminal I boot into for those times I don't
> want a GUI. ;-)
I use vga=791 on my kernel command line. I think that is, or soon will
be depreciated but I find that method gives me what I want as far as
the terminal goes.
GRUB_GFXMODE=????x???? in grub.cfg is the way to configure it now but I
haven't found a setting that suits me, yet.
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