nvidia

[Dan Ritter]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:41:48AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
> 
> googling suggests that using the nv driver instead of the nvidia
> proprietary driver might be the right solution.  
> 
> Is that the consensus opinion?  This is a desktop computer that mostly
> runs emacs, firefox, and xpdf (with some commandline programs), so I
> don't need any fancy 3D features or anything.
> 
> Is there an easy way to switch back to the nv driver?  Currently I'm
> attempting to do it by forcing a reinstall of the xserver-xorg-video-nv
> driver.  (This is Ubuntu 9.04.)  It seems like using the package manager
> to reconfigure X mightn't be the best possible way.


in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you need a section like this:

Section "Device"
        Driver "nv"
EndSection

If you already have a Device section, then just change the
Driver line.

Errors will be visible in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

-dsr-


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