> After I ran the NVIDIA-BLAH-BLAH-7174-BLAH-BLAH.run
> that I downloaded from their site, it removed the old drivers that
> were installed, built the new interface for my kernel, and loaded the
> new drivers. Actually, I ran modprobe nvidia to get the module loaded,
> and now it autoloads when the computer starts up. Oh I'm also running
> xorg 6.8.2 and kernel version 2.6.11.7.
Sounds pretty close to my setup, but I still got nuthin'
> > did you replace "nv" with "nvidia" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
> > did you add "nvidia" in /etc/sysconfig/modules?
Yup.
> Also, did you build it against the running kernel?, and not the kernel you
> originally used for your LFS system?
Did that to. Kind of frustrating to get this far in the (B)LFS
process and be thwarted by something like video drivers. :| Just for
kicks, here's my xorg.conf file:
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "On"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
# Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 340 270 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "DEL"
ModelName "DELL 1703FP"
### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:
# HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
# VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
DisplaySize 337.5 270.0
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 "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
#Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPTweak" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nv"
# Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 6800GT"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
# Option "NvAgp" "2"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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