From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWt61-0007uS-Vy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:28:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29AE9E0648; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f177.google.com (mail-yx0-f177.google.com [209.85.210.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCA8E0648 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe7 with SMTP id 7so132551yxe.32 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:28:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5HSOJGx93n2+MG3ftrJCVU0IE4z7bU7dpCGut8BlEQI=; b=pvVZbsdJSEDOdneJotOux8PV7BG/5Cxf+JAk18eNDztFF/HsUuWRyP4TVoRi4a0WG1 UHCJWEDT7dWaDVuCI5tAsVh9r/mo7oD5q0dxOEwA9Ygb2IevsgqF6Rl8jY6XaGuUTo1z omLMrTHonDfCqJW18jl/7EKjCCVZb5onMhpdE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=v43ZQaoRAWf38MoWxwsxBVztVMyK4RdUyAoJVW1IQQTGDWp+Y2kTEBbhpecsJ9ve+h kvJcUK53qm0F/wtgLInn8CCDqQVEVmjDnT8IgSnEi4iq2My4wVKzF90dAKBuT41BzLsh N02PcyEXgiLrR5mWNF8g0HFqXH9oJwDwM50/0= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.132.11 with SMTP id f11mr2270517and.50.1249050511718; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:28:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A7263AC.40300@gmail.com> References: <184110a70907280735y215a4001v551b738bb1a605ed@mail.gmail.com> <9065b8fe0907301444m5f717770if01bd6a4a3e31db6@mail.gmail.com> <184110a70907301934h41c94c6exa6a1c957e008a0b2@mail.gmail.com> <4A7263AC.40300@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:28:31 +0800 Message-ID: <184110a70907310728rabe1e0cvcdd4d92d2d45f3ed@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards) From: Mike Mazur To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 061698f1-f121-4f94-af0a-d721e7e043ac X-Archives-Hash: cbb1865c63a370e37aa6a2a0c09eaca0 Hi, On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:23, Dale wrote: > Mike Mazur wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:44, Fernando Antunes wr= ote: >>> =A0I don't use xorg.conf in my notebook Lenovo T61, Intel 965GSM , xorg= and >>> xfce ~x86, gentoo 2.6.30 with KMS, anymore. >>> =A0 Both kernel and X switch to 1280x800 resolution automatically, xine= rama is >>> disable. >>> >> Interesting, so you don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all? >> > If you have hal enabled and xorg-server-1.5 or higher, then you don't > have to have a xorg.conf file. =A0This is from what I have read. =A0I hav= e > yet to get that hal thing to work here. > > If you are still on the old xorg-server then you have to have a > xorg.conf file. I tried this earlier, running startx without an /etc/X11/xorg.conf in place, but X didn't start. The error message was something along the lines of "No screen found." I'm running: - x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 - x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2 - sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r9 Mike