From: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:37:24 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090610133724.0038374a@coercion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027a01c9e997$bf6ec150$6400a8c0@quan>
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:50:24 -0400
"James Homuth" <james@the-jdh.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely
> sure which video card I have.
These days X is clever enough to choose appropriate driver for you.
I'd suggest to build X with following video drivers: "intel radeon nv
nvidia sis via xgi vesa", since that covers 90% (or even more) of modern
built-in video adapters.
Then issue "X -configure" as root and X will produce appropriate
xorg.conf in "/root/xorg.conf.new" with all the possible parameters for
your card, so you won't have to figure them out yourself.
You can also remove all the drivers but the one chosen by X and "vesa"
(in case something breaks or you get a new card) afterwards.
--
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-10 6:50 [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? James Homuth
2009-06-10 6:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-10 7:20 ` James Homuth
2009-06-10 7:51 ` Roy Wright
2009-06-10 8:05 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-10 8:10 ` James Homuth
2009-06-10 11:20 ` KH
2009-06-10 13:48 ` Dale
2009-06-10 7:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Adam Carter
2009-06-10 7:35 ` James Homuth
2009-06-10 7:40 ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-06-10 8:10 ` James Homuth
2009-06-10 10:10 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-10 11:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-10 7:45 ` Dale
2009-06-10 7:37 ` Mike Kazantsev [this message]
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