On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 06:50:42PM +1000, Ashton Fagg wrote: > I've spent a few hours this afternoon mucking about with Nouveau > trying to get it working (temporarily at least, just to check). I've > had limited success in some areas and absolutely none in others. > > I firstly checked to make sure Nouveau was installed, which it was. > I then killed the X server, backed up xorg.conf and changed the > driver for the video card to "noveau". Followed by an "rmmod nvidia > && modprobe nouveau". This left me with a text console. My machine > was docked at the time, with my 22" LCD connected. The LCD on the > laptop was flickery and the resolution on the LCD was all skeewiff > (even in text mode). A "startx" brought up the desktop as expected, > however I couldn't get my laptop's LCD to work in dual head mode (or > at all for that fact) with xrandr. My external screen worked just > fine though. > Try removing xorg.conf all together. It should not be needed in most cases. The hardware will be (should be) auto-detected, which eliminates the human error variable.
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