nvidia quadro broken after recent update

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 15:15 -0700, David L wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:55 PM, David L wrote:
> > I'm running f12 and after an update today, X is broken on this system:
> > http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_8aaac744-2cff-40c2-aeed-743e9495e525
> >
> > I had it working this morning but now the system becomes
> > unresponsive unless I boot with nomodeset.  I tried booting to the
> > kernel that I think I was using this morning and got the same
> > problem.
> <snip>
> 
> I got this system working dual head again by booting to
> runlevel 3 with one monitor plugged in, removing
> xorg.conf, running startx, plugging the second monitor
> in, poking myself in the eye, and running system-config-display.
> Some of those steps may be optional.
> 
> When I click OK to exit system-config-display, it creates a
> new xorg.conf that doesn't work the next time I reboot.
> 
>            David

If you're using the OSS nouveau driver, I'd suggest you file a bug
report against it in http://bugzilla.redhat.com.

In general you are no longer required to use xorg.conf to get a working
configuration - at least in theory.

- Gilboa