Thanks. I used xorgconfig and used defaults where I could. I now have X working. I have 2 terminals side by side. To ask a stupid question, is this ok, or have I plowed my card? It used the nv driver as I chose generic NVIDIA. Thanks again for your help
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 14:56, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Donal Farrell wrote these words on 04/18/05 08:42 CST: > > Hi there. I'm having tons of trouble with Xorg6.8.2 in BLFS-6.0 When I > > do Xorg -configure, I am told that Xorg is unable to detect my mouse. > > Also, I loaded an nvidia driver last week, and although I recompiled my > > kernel since, Xorg still says that it can't load the NVIDIA module, so > > is there a way I can get rid of this module altogether. On the same > > note, I'm trying to make a liveCD, so would I actually need the nvidia > > module to be able to detact all cards? Below is a small section of my > > xorg.conf file. Every time I run Xorg -configure, the updated file has > > the mouse option changed back to /dev/mouse even though I tried to set > > it to numerous other things. When I ran Xorg -allowMouseOpenFail, I got > > a X screen and my mouse worked, but I was basically stuck there with NO > > other functionality??? Thanks in advance > > Two things here: > > One, for what it is worth, I don't use Xorg-configure, as it just > doesn't work for me half the time. Something ends up not getting > discovered correctly. I use xorgconfig instead. It is a little more > trouble answering the questions, but I always get a good workable > configuration, that has all the stuff in the configuration file, > making it easy two tweak. > > Two, I don't see how an inoperable mouse and trying to create a > liveCD is "on the same note". You'd probably get better answers if > you were to list your issues individually. You have one great big > paragraph up there, with at least 4 different questions/issues. > > -- > Randy > > rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] > [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] > 08:51:00 up 16 days, 8:24, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
