On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:52:45 +0100, =?UTF-8?Q?Jes=C3=BAs_Guerrero?= wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:08:26 +0100, Arnau Bria <ar...@emergetux.net> wrote:
> > Am Iworng or my xorg uses nv driver? if so, how may I force hal to use
> > nvidia driver? what about dri module? why is it failling to load it?
>
> This is only one of the reasons (only one of them) why hal in X is as
> useless as it can get: if you use any driver that's not provided by the
> Xorg guys then you still need an xorg.conf.
True, but it doesn't need much in it. I'm not generally a hal apologist,
but I'm quite happy with this as my entire xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
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