Re: Setting up X

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:37:54PM -0400, trhawes%althusius.net@localhost wrote:
> 
> I have NetBSD 6.1 installed on an ASUS laptop. The video card is an
> NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M, and is currently unsupported with xorg's nv
> driver. I would like to get this working with the vesa driver, but have
> come to a dead end with X -configure.
> 
> This is the Xorg.o.log: http://pastebin.com/Su60241w
> The output from running X -configure: http://pastebin.com/GLZYeBJq
> And the resulting xorg.conf.new file: http://pastebin.com/bsiMk7k2

The second pastebin seems to have gone away...

> Didn't this used to automatically fall back to the vesa driver when
> finding an unsupported card? Just changing nv to vesa in the xorg.conf
> file does not seem to be enough.

What happens when you change nv to vesa?

Cheers,

Patrick