Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:01:36 -0700, Tech wrote in message : > In Debian Lenny, X server use to correctly load the video driver > (mach64_drv.so) for my VGA card: > debian:~# lspci -v | grep VGA > 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility > P/M (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA

Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-14 Thread Sthu Deus
Tech: >Yes, I am aware of that, except that, in this case X does not detect >the correct driver automagically...:) You can create one w/ default options w/ X -configure then specify only those options You need. For others will be loaded by the server automatically - for now-days it works pretty

Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 13 July 2011 12:07:56 pm Tech Geek wrote: > >There isn't one 'cos X nowadays automagically detect everything - when > > it does. > > Yes, I am aware of that, except that, in this case X does not detect > the correct driver automagically...:) You can still use an 'xorg.conf' file. You

Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-13 Thread Tech Geek
>There isn't one 'cos X nowadays automagically detect everything - when > it does. Yes, I am aware of that, except that, in this case X does not detect the correct driver automagically...:) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 21:01, Tech Geek wrote: > So how do I tell X to load the ati driver? Explicitly specify it in > xorg.conf file? Currently, I there is no such file in /etc/X11 > directory. > There isn't one 'cos X nowadays automagically detect everything - when it does. Create one. See man