Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2

[Henrik Frisk]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Chris Smart <mail at christophersmart.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, so now I've reinstalled the drivers once again. Upon my first
>> reboot the startup would halt with the flickering white bar. Rebooting
>> mystically fixed it and I'm definitely running nvidia withour nouveau:
>
> I don't know why you're getting that... seems strange. Can you post
> the kernel line of your /boot/grub/menu.lst?
>
Well, see below. Now I've already uninstalled nvidia...
>>
>> $ lsmod | grep nouveau
>> $ lsmod | grep nvidia
>> nvidia               9318413  40
>> mbp_nvidia_bl           1755  0
>> i2c_core               20553  3 nvidia,videodev,i2c_nforce2
>
> OK, so that means that your system does not have the nouveau driver
> (your initramfs still might).
>
>>
>> Looking at xorg.0.log however I find the following errors at the end
>> (everything else in the log looks alright to me):
>
> Hmm.. I doubt that it's dualhead, you would have to configure that in
> your xorg.conf before it worked with the NVIDIA driver.
>
> Can you post this?
> cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf |grep -i driver
>
I'm sorry I didn't see your post before I uninstalled nvidia. But I
had created a fresh xorg.conf via nvidia-xconfig and I'm certain it
used nvidia.

/h