On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 05:49 +0100, Bruno Miguel wrote: > Hi > > I was trying to find a tool in gNS repositories that could help me > easily configure my xorg.conf to work with the free nvidia driver and > I stumbled across envyng. This little tool seems to suggests the > instalation of non-free NVidia and ATI drivers, as you can see by this > screenshot: > http://pictload.plixweb.fr/pics/0d436ebe47fbeb0aa048c5ccfcc852a7.png > > Since I'm writing this email, does anyone know a simple way to make > Xorg work with the free NVidia drivers? I think mine is using the Vesa > driver. At least, that is the interpretation I make from this: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > EndSection > > Recording screencasts with this can be a real pain, a real *slow* pain. > > Peace; > Bruno Miguel > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
Hi, Xorg in Ubuntu (and therefore gNewSense) seems to be configured with displayconfig-gtk as root. It is in the gnome menu but it is not shown by default. It is labelled as Screens and Graphics in the Other section. I have a ~6 year old Dell which has the free Intel drivers and my xorg.conf shows the same Device section. The x.org wiki [http://wiki.x.org/wiki/nv] says that the free NVidia (nv) video driver doesn't offer hardware acceleration which would explain the slowness when recording screencasts. Cheers, Eric (MentalNotes) _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
