[OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

[Rainer Heilke]

------ Original Message ------
>From "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
To "Rainer Heilke" <rheilke at dragonhearth.com>; "Discussion list for 
OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Date 2024-05-06 6:57:43 PM
Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver

>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)
>
Hi.
This would make sense, and looks like what I had on FreeBSD,  but X is 
ignoring it.  No matter how I set the file ownership/permissions, I'm 
still just getting the failed NVidia attempts. :-(

Rainer
>
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