Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can anyone suggest a good tutorial on X11? I'm playing with FC8 and
> thus far, I can't get the installer to recognise the GeForce 8400
> installed. I've tried a few commands from my (fallable) memory like
>
> Xorg -configure
> xf86config
>
> and so on, bnt I'm a bit rusty. At present, I can't even post the
> output from the logs (without physically writing it down or kvm'ing it
> from one box to another).
>
>
>
You can try the install in console mode and then change the xorg.conf
later once fully installed using
system-config-display
Alternatively change the "Device" part driver to "Driver nv" and "init
3;init 5" or just reboot.
My /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720"
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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