/var/log/Xorg.0.log should have information on what config files the X server
read, what devices it actually found, and what decisions it made on which
driver to use for them.
It would have to be a very old motherboard to have an Intel graphics chip
that's not part of an Intel CPU - they merged them into a single unit years
ago. But X won't assume an nvidia card based on the CPU, only on the PCI
device ids it finds that match nvidia's vendor id.
-alan-
On 5/6/24 18:59, Rainer Heilke wrote:
Hi.
xrandr called it an Intel graphics card. The intel_drv.so driver worked solidly
under FreeBSD. I think X keeps thinking it's an NVidia card because it's an AMD
CPU. But Gigabyte seems to have used an intel chip on the motherboard. The
NVideo driver hasn't worked under any flavour of Unix/Linux I've tried.
Rainer
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From "Rainer Heilke" <rhei...@dragonhearth.com>
To "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com>; "Discussion list for
OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>
Date 2024-05-06 6:29:09 PM
Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver
------ Original Message ------
From "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com>
To "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>;
"Rainer Heilke" <rhei...@dragonhearth.com>
Date 2024-05-06 6:17:15 PM
Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting wrong video driver
On 5/6/24 18:10, Rainer Heilke wrote:
Greetings.
Which file is Hipster using to define the video driver to use? X is trying
to use the NVidia driver, which fails. Under FreeBSD, the Intel driver
worked, so I'm hoping it will here as well. But none of the files I've
found that mention the NVidia driver seem to actually be an Xorg config file.
Like Xorg on all other platforms, it will use /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it exists,
or config snippets in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ but the default configuration
doesn't use a config file, but lets Xorg check for available video devices
and uses its internal mapping of PCI vendor ids to drivers to decide which
drivers to use for those.
-- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
Hi.
That make sense, thanks. It also explains why I can't find a config file to
edit.
So, is there an "official" way to override the driver X is using? Do I need to
hack together a config file to do this?
Thanks again,
Rainer
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