On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Frank Smith <frsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 September 2010 15:57, Folderol <folde...@ukfsn.org> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:19:25 -0600 >> Gustin Johnson <gus...@echostar.ca> wrote: >> >> > > I removed my xorg.conf and put in one I had kept from my G mail >> > > account!! >> > > >> > Typically we no longer need to mess with the xorg.conf file. >> >> Unfortunately this depends a lot on the monitor. There are quite a few >> mid-range monitors that simply are not recognised by the 'new' xorg, >> older versions that actually need xorg.conf don't seem to have a >> problem. >> >> Go figure ??? > > Hi All > My monitor is an HP w2007v 20" > Which I don't think is that old. > I couldn't get xrandr to change anything. > I don't understand why the 'older' xorg.conf seemed to eventually work.
It depends on the version of X, the state of the drivers, and the hardware itself. > I had input vert and hysnyc on the one that was generated on install. > Maybe when I used envyng it actually found the NV driver, as this didn't > seem to be on the system at install. There are actually three different drivers; envyng, nv, and nvidia (glx). It does not really matter but I am curious which driver is actually being used. > Talking of the nvidia-glx > When I used synaptic to install this it failed to install then I could not > un-install it. > This then stopped synaptic from working. > After a day online I eventually found I had to do mkdir /usr/lib32 > this then allowed synaptic to remove the offending file. > Is this an error with synaptic? Could be a bug in that package as well. If I have a need for the GLX driver, I have had far better luck in getting the driver from nvidia.com. The install process is a bit more manual but it does work. Lately I have been avoiding both of them. Intel, for all their problems, have given me far less grief than either nVidia or ATI/AMD. With the radeonhd driver and newer ATI/AMD devices, I have hope that things will get better in the future. _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list 64studio-users@lists.64studio.com http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
