[Grml] nVidia video hardware autodetection bug
Michael Prokop
mika at grml.org
Thu Feb 2 13:33:06 CET 2006
* Mark <or2uvma02 at sneakemail.com> [20060202 02:15]:
> OK, I followed the advice and just tried it on a spare user machine.
> apt-get install nvidia-kernel-2.6.15-grml
> That much worked but was not the whole story. Hardware autodetection of
> the nVidia card seems to be a problem. My current impression is that
> GRML does not detect it or set it up properly.
You won't get hardware autodetection for closed source nvidia
drivers.
> At boot time, grml-x creates /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Now as a test, I ran
> nvidia-xconfig by hand, which creates its own /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Then
> I rebooted. That didn't work. When I rebooted, X would not start
> properly. So I fell back to the old xorg.conf.
[...]
You don't have to reboot if you modify xorg.conf, just restart X.
See http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=nvidia for instructions.
Thanks to Timo Boettcher for verifying instructions.
regards,
-mika-
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