Re: [solved] SL5.1 xorg problem.

2008-02-07 Thread Urs Beyerle
[...] Configure the nvidia driver with /usr/bin/nvidia-settings and not with system-config-display. You mean /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig I think. yes, both. P.S. On that machine (Dell Optiplex 740) I could not run your liveCD or liveDVD (4.5 , 5.0 and 5.1) After "

Re: [solved] SL5.1 xorg problem.

2008-02-06 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- On 2008-02-06 +0100 at 09:05:14 Beyerle Urs wrote -- > Hi, > > If you are not "afraid" of proprietary drivers you can try the NVIDIA > driver from SL contrib: > > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/51/i386/contrib/video/ > > Install nvidia-x11-drv and dkms. dkms (Dynamic Kernel

Re: SL5.1 xorg problem.

2008-02-06 Thread Beyerle Urs
Hi, If you are not "afraid" of proprietary drivers you can try the NVIDIA driver from SL contrib: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/51/i386/contrib/video/ Install nvidia-x11-drv and dkms. dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) will take care that the nvidia kernel module is rebuilt

Re: SL5.1 xorg problem.

2008-02-05 Thread markaoki
file before messing with it: #cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig I hope you get it going! : ) - Original Message - From: "FRANCHISSEUR Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ". Liste SL-users FNAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 200

SL5.1 xorg problem.

2008-02-05 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, after a fresh SL5.1 install on a Dell Optiplex 740 I have no mouse pointer which is very annoying :) It was there during the install and during the boot process. Also, I was not able to get a better resolution than 800x600 on a 1600x1200 flat panel screen with the "nv" driver 00:05.0 VGA