[OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

[Edward Martinez]

> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:41:29 +0000
> From: guy.woolley at btinternet.com
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice
> 
>   You just need to look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change "vesa" to "nv" 
> - that should do it. My Xorg.conf file reads simply.
> 
> 
> Section "Device"
>      Identifier  "Card0"
>      Driver      "nv"
> EndSection
> 
> I have a 27" monitor that needs 1920 x 1080. Vesa looks terrible for me 
> as it doesn't get past 1280x 1024 (if I remember rightly). It's a shame 
> as this card is a) cheap and b) looks pretty good when it does its stuff 
> under WinXP.
> 
> The other downside is that most of the Screensavers shipped with OI 
> don't work for me.
> 
> Best of luck
> 
> Guy

Hi,
 Did not work for me. I made my xorg.conf to look like yours but I get the following error and i was also getting the xtsol module not found but that
  was cleared up when i installed trusted-xorgserver.  current error:

  NV(0): No valid intial configuration found
  Screens found, but none have a usable configuration 
    
    Fatal server error:
    no screens found 

so i thought  issuing "Xorg -configure" might help but it did not i get the same error
 
 xorg-conf file created from Xorg -configure cmd: 
        
        Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/amd64"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11/lib/modules/"
        FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "ia"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dri2"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "xtsol"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nv"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "GT200 [GeForce GT 220]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
  Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

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