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

[Guy Woolley]

  Edward,
              Sorry I wasn't any help. Now I begin to wonder why mine is 
working!

Guy

On 02/15/11 12:48 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:
>
>
>> 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
>
> (END)
>
>
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