On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:45:56AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> One of the things xinit does is look for the variable XSESSION. If set, it
> will read the contents of it and try and run that as an X session. There are
> no real pluses and minuses to either way. If you admin a huge box with many
> users, you might want to set a default of Gnome for everyone, and let users
> change it if they want in their home dir. If this is your personal machine,
> there is one user - you - and the setting is best done in your home dir (most
> howtos on the net will refer to this method).
Thanks. This looks like one of those situations where "if you have to
ask about it, you don't need it". This is a home machine, so no need to
get fancy. I'll leave things as is.
> > 4) Speaking of /etc/make.conf, there was some news about Radeon HD
> > cards being moved to a separate driver group and requiring a change in
> > /etc/make.conf. I'm using a card from an older computer, which lspci
> > shows as...
> >
> > ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
> >
> > Since X is working, I assume that my card is not a member of the Radeon
> > HD family. My /etc/make.conf includes the lines...
> >
> > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
> > VIDEO_CARDS="intel vga"
>
> Hmmm. I'd say your X is running on the vga driver. What driver is actually
> loaded as per Xorg.0.log?
=========================================================
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.12.1
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 4.1
=========================================================
...and from the command line...
waltd...@d530 ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
radeon 125984 1
scsi_wait_scan 1152 0
intel_agp 23172 1
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Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
