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The Friday 2007-07-06 at 02:01 +0200, I wrote:
> The Thursday 2007-07-05 at 16:08 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > xorg.conf must have "nvidia"
>
> No, because xorg.conf is not read. Remember I used "sax2 --reinit". And my
> xorg.conf is set to use nv, anyway.
The idea, anyway, was to adjust my display to recenter it for my monitor.
If I use my flat monitor controls to adjust it, then it is off-center in
text mode, and viceversa (they seem to be the same video mode,
unfortunately, so the display hardware doesn't record different settings).
So I wanted to center it in text mode using the flat panel controls, then
use sax2 to correct the settings in X.
So, I'm using "sax2 --reinit --modules 0=nv".
Then select to test the display, center and resize it to my liking, save,
exit... and changes are lost. This is what I get in the xorg.conf file
(brand new file, created by sax2, remember):
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
EndSection
No modelines! No modelines, no modified modelines! It is unable to start
X!
Seems to me that this sax2 is buggy as hell. :-/
Obviously, I haven't lost anything, I'm an old hand in this and saved my
old, working config in several places before starting; so the question is:
how to get those modified modelines? I need them. Maybe there is a command
to read them from memory while the X server is running. Maybe sax2 saves
them temporarily somewhere - and no, that is not /tmp: in there it is the
xorg.file used to fireup the server, but not the modified file.
Maybe there is another program to center the screen.
For instance: now I'm using gnome. There is an applet that says "configure
display settings". It asks for my root password. It fires up sax2, seems
to read my present config (using "nv"). When I get to the "test" point, it
fails, and says to read "/var/log/Xorg.99.log". There is this error again:
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
This time I don't know what driver it is trying to use, but I think it is
the "nv" one.
The dialog also complains about "data incomplete in file
/var/lib/sax/xorg.conf At least one Device section is required".
At least I learnt of another place to look for a sax2 config file...
Tomorrow will be a new day. I hope. :-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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