Hi I have a mere week old GT520 and as such I'm a new user of NVidia's binary driver : neither the kernel fb nor Xorg's nouveau knows it !
I have yet to test Xorg without device.conf from nvidia-kernel, but it works fine for me : I just have device.conf and 90-keyboard-layout.conf in xorg.conf.d To tackle Thomas's issue, I would vote for a device.conf.new and doinst.sh as I find it the Slawckare way of doing it. BTW I'm running Slackware64-current, and I tweaked nvidia-kernel and nvidia-kernel to use 280.04 : it works like a charm. Lyonel 2011/7/27 King Beowulf <kingbeow...@gmail.com>: > Well, I wrestled with this a while. Even though I'm old school and run > a full tweaked out xorg.conf, the new fangled consensus seems to be to > run without and let X and the desktop environment automagically > configure things. That's why I added device.conf as the nvidia drivers > doesn't always get chosen properly. > > It would be interesting to poll how many users still run a full xorg.conf. > > My testing didn't show any issues with the extra device.conf. But if > it does, I can add a switch / readme to the script for the > selection...perhaps also a check in doinst.sh a ala device.conf.new... > > Ed > > > On 7/26/11, Thomas Morper <tho...@beingboiled.info> wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> Recently, a new bit of code, that will put an xorg.conf.d/device.conf to >> the resulting package, has been added to the nvidia-kernel SlackBuild. >> >> While this is convenient for most first time installs, it's less >> convenient when updating, because the hardcoded device.conf will >> overwrite any user-made changes and will clash with certain multi-head >> setups. >> >> I think I'd rather have the device.conf in the doc-directory and a hint >> in the README. Still convenient for first-time installs, but won't break >> existing setups. What do you think? >> >> -- >> http://beingboiled.info/slackware/ >> _______________________________________________ >> SlackBuilds-users mailing list >> SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org >> http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users >> Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ >> FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/ >> >> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > You! What PLANET is this! > -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org > http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > > _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/