Re: xorg woes

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Bernd Ernesti wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:32:28PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > Well, I got a couple of machines with new native in-tree xorg running,
> > after battling to get my /etc/X11/xorg.conf set up right.  (Half the
> > battle was just finding the file!)
> >
> > But I've got a couple of issues that don't seem quite right:
> >
> > 1. VT switching doesn't work.  I've editted xorg.conf in every way I
> >    can imagine for "Option DontVTSwitch" but it just doesn't make any
> >    difference.
>
> Known issue.

Any known cure?

> > 2. One of my machines has a GeForce video card, and it doesn't seem to
> >    have a specific driver.  So I have to use "Driver vesa".  The man
>
> Since you don't say which chip it has ...

I wish I knew.  The PCI bus scan shows

(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT rev 161, Mem @ 
0xdc000000/2.

But that bring up issue #4:

4. The video card database seems to be missing.  xorgconfig reports

        Do you want to look at the card database? y

        Couldn't read card database file /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/Cards.

> > 3. It seems that if you have neither a xorg.conf nor XF86config file
> >    in /etc/X11, the server will use a built-in configuration.  This
> >    almost works, except it doesn't know about wsmouse!
>
> Disable wsmoused.

How do I disable wsmoused?


> Bernd
>
>
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