On Thursday 06 January 2011 23:51:38 KIM WHALEN wrote:
> I made the kernel with the nvidia driver as a module and the "emerge
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" worked. However, running Xorg -configure
> still fails.
you don't even need that.
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "evdev"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Name" "Logitech, Inc. MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "evdev"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
this is for fglrx - just change fglrx to nvidia - and you have a working
nvidia xorg.conf.
Just stop doing stupid things with your kernel config. No framebuffer. Not even
as modules!
