Hi Tom and everybody, Really sorry, I'll make sure to never reply personally again. It's kind of common sense, I should have resisted the temptation to just hit the reply button on every mail... I'll send all mail to [email protected] now - that's the right thing right? You can still track what I'm saying, correct?
Yes, indeed, X does work once I rid the system of nvidia drivers, the xorg.conf file and install something like vesa for instance. The main problem right now is less about X not starting and more about the low resolution (which I'm guessing is because there is no nVidia support). You are right, I have Optimus on my laptop, and I tried installing bumblebee to no success :( I'm attaching my X files again so everyone else can try to see what the problem is, too... Also, I have the *same* laptop make, lspci output, and probably even the same X configuration and errors, as this guy: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1790201 - and what I want is a better screen resolution, just like the OP. I tried to implement the answers over there by messing with my X files, but I keep breaking things. May I please have instructions, or Step-by-Step links to instructions? Reply #8 to that thread sounds tantalizingly like a solution but whatever I write into the x.conf file to implement it, ends up in a syntax error... On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Aditya, > > You shouldn't write to people on mailing lists directly. It's bad form > and more importantly prevents a possible answer from being archived for > others to find. Besides, plenty of people on the list know plenty of > things about X that I don't. > > > I did try that wiki page - installing all those things step by step. >> > > Ehm, I only mentioned Bumblebee because I believe your card comes with > Nvidia Optimus. I haven't checked it yet, but it'll be necessary to get > the best out of the card in any case. > > > I'm still having trouble with X starting up <..> attaching my X files > > In the meantime, as I said, it was enough to get rid of nvidia/nouveau > and run X with the intel driver. > > So: > > * check "lspci", if you have both a VGA line and a "Display controller" > line, the latter is probably Intel > * if so, get rid of nvidia/nouveau (check with something like "dpkg -l > '*nvidia*' | grep ^ii") > * make sure you have the intel driver (xserver-xorg-video-intel), maybe > install libva-intel-vaapi-driver too > * for me libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-mesa-dri were needed too > * finally, move your old xorg.conf out of the way and start X without > one, it should figure it out by itself > > This worked for me. If it doesn't for you, please don't forget you can > use Google just like anybody would have to. Only that vague error line > ("nvidia x no devices detected") was enough to get you started. > > Luck! > Tom > > -- > np: Vagon Brei - Praclarush Taonas > -- sincerely, aditya menon --------------------- +919666689309 --------------------- http://www.forrst.me/adityamenon
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