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MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

question re xorg.conf

Hi,
I was away for a few days and this morning did a pacman -Suy.  One of the things loaded was xorg7.  I had some trouble with nvidia and finally got it runing.  Unfortunately it's running on my old xorg.conf. If I try the new one, the colors on my wallpaper are all washed out and my fonts etc are weird. I have read and re-read teh Wiki but don't follow. Was the wiki written while xorg7 was still in testing?  It seems like soem of the stuff it talks about are already done.  Should I continue running on the old xorg.conf and if not, what should I do to get the new one working??

Thanks

Jim

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: question re xorg.conf

The xorg wiki was started while xorg 7 was in testing but several sections have been added since xorg7 hit current.

The only modifications I did to my xorg.conf were the paths and commenting out 'Load  "GLcore"'. BTW, I was already using:
Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
You might need to make other adjustment depending on your system. My fonts did changed (especially in firefox) but changing the config fixed that.

Your wallpaper problem might be related to the nvidia drivers.  Maybe you need to change the graphic card section of your xorg.conf. I don't have a nvidia card so I can't help you more.

MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: question re xorg.conf

Here's my xorg.conf (the new one).

Jim

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"
#    Load  "dri"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "GS790"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
    HorizSync 30 - 97
    VertRefresh 50 - 180
    Option "DPMS" "true"
    Option "Twinview"
    Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30 - 97"
    Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50 - 160"
    Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"     # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
#        Driver      "vesa"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
    BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "GS790"

    SubSection "Display"
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection

    SubSection "Display"
                Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
                Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection