On 07/15/2010 11:03 PM, Erik wrote:
2010-07-16 01:51, walt skrev:
On 07/15/2010 02:15 AM, Erik wrote:
...This is the
new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old INSPIRON|8600
aquired 5 years earlier...
I feel as if I'm reading a post that I selected at random from the
middle of a long thread with lots of previous questions and answers
that I can't see.
I've never heard of either of those products. Maybe someone else
knows what they are?
Do not worry about not knowing about the products that I mentioned in
the parenthesis in the last paragraph (they are just some laptops with
differend graphic cards built in).
Ah, I understand now. I was expecting the information to be relevant.
You may know enough to help if you
are familiar with Xorg, in particular the driver called NV (as the first
2 lines of my post shows)...
I know a little about it. It is no longer maintained by xorg or nvidia, so
that may be part of the problem if you are using recent nvidia hardware.
A commonly asked question is "does it work as expected with the vesa driver?"
(Vesa does not include 2D/3D acceleration, obviously, but it should at least
give you correct results for an ordinary console.)
The open-source 'nv' driver has been replaced by the open-source 'nouveau'
driver, which is still very much a work in progress. I'm using it just to
experiment -- I don't need 2D/3D acceleration, but maybe you do. If so, you
need to use nvidia's proprietary 'nvidia' driver because it's the only choice
you have at present.
All of the drivers I mentioned are in gentoo portage in the xf86-video-* series.
"nouveau" suppport in the kernel needs a bit of annoying fiddling with the
kernel config file to get it right. I can help with that if you want to try
it.
