/etc/X11/xorg.conf anyone?

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Jul 31 01:19:02 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 18:32, Shawn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone post an example /etc/X11/xorg.conf  with and without nvidia entries.
> 
> I upgraded from RH9 and X wouldn't start as there was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> I copied and old XF86Config and X runs but I get many errors which in all the troubles I am having can't seem to fine but I think it was  a problem with a "glx" module ... but that is specified to be used in the conf I used.
> 
> This is what I am using.  I was unable to get nvidia support going following thier how to although under RH9 it worked fine.
> 
> Anyway, I just want to check that my xorg.conf file is not all goofy.
> 
> -- 
> Shawn
> 
> Karma is immutable, so act accordingly!

My xorg.conf file is below.
NOTE: the only changes from default here are 1) I changed the driver
from nv to nvidia and 2) I commented out the line that said ' load "dri"
in the modules section.

------begin-------

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config
 
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
 
Section "Files"
         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection
 
Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
#       Load  "dri"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
 
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Komodo P571"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 120.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection
 
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
EndSection
 
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
 
Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection
 
------end---------


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