Re: Nvidia Driver Working [Was: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf]

[Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 11:44 PM
> Subject: 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.


Thanks for the suggestions.  Knew about the first method, but not the second.  Have lots more research to do with the nvidia driver first before I start making any more changes.

Thanks, again.

B