Re: X

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:14:49 +0000 (UTC)

"James" <jemwin@gmail.com> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|One question
|is what configuration file does X run off of if i haven't ran
|/usr/X11/xorgconfig yet?

If xorg.conf doesn't exist in /etc/X11 or any other specified location,
Xorg uses a configuration it generates in memory at runtime, based on
probing for available devices.

|I was having problems getting X to start so i
|deleted the xorg.conf and it started up again but still not on the
|nvidia drivers.

If you're not using a config file, it will probe to see if /dev/fb
is using the nvidia kernel driver - if so, it will use the nvidia
Xorg driver to match, otherwise it uses the nv Xorg driver.

|My other question is how do i deduce which PCI ID my
|video card is? I used pci10de,5d and it wasn't correct. i used
|prntconf and it comes up with several unknown nvidia components.
|what do you guys think?

Try checking the listed id's against the pciids database at
http://pciids.sf.net/ (that's the list scanpci uses for it's names,
but scanpci has a snapshot of that list compiled in, so is only as
up-to-date as the last time that list was pulled into the source and
a new version compiled). 

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