[OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

Rainer Heilke rheilke at dragonhearth.com
Tue May 7 01:29:09 UTC 2024


------ Original Message ------
>From "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
To "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" 
<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>; "Rainer Heilke" 
<rheilke at dragonhearth.com>
Date 2024-05-06 6:17:15 PM
Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

>On 5/6/24 18:10, Rainer Heilke wrote:
>>Greetings.
>>Which file is Hipster using to define the video driver to use? X is trying to use the NVidia driver, which fails. Under FreeBSD, the Intel driver worked, so I'm hoping it will here as well. But none  of the files I've found that mention the NVidia driver seem to actually be an Xorg config file.
>
>Like Xorg on all other platforms, it will use /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists,
>or config snippets in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ but the default configuration
>doesn't use a config file, but lets Xorg check for available video devices
>and uses its internal mapping of PCI vendor ids to drivers to decide which
>drivers to use for those.
>
>--         -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>          Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
>
Hi.
That make sense, thanks. It also explains why I can't find a config file 
to edit.
So, is there an "official" way to override the driver X is using? Do I 
need to hack together a config file to do this?
Thanks again,
Rainer

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