[OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 5/6/24 18:29, Rainer Heilke wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 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?

You should just ba able to create a file named
   /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-driver.conf
that contains:

Section "Device"
         Identifier  "Card0"
         Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

(change "vesa" to the name of the driver module you want to use)

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