On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Anthony Messina amess...@messinet.comwrote:
On Thursday 24 December 2009 05:41:03 Kirk Lowery wrote:
Thanks for the response and the great idea! The same thing had occurred
to
me, especially as I had used this technique to install Fedora 10.
Only...there
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 08:20 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
Well, I tried this conf and it worked -- exactly as without an
xorg.conf: everything about dual head works except for the background
stretch.
I guess I'm going to have to get in touch with the LiveCD developers,
and find out who does
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 08:20 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
Well, I tried this conf and it worked -- exactly as without an
xorg.conf: everything about dual head works except for the background
stretch.
I guess I'm going
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 09:08 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
So...if a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists, does nouveau use it? If not,
how does one force its use?
the xorg.conf is used if it exists, and what's in it is used to
overwrite what is detected automatically.
Example, if you want to install
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Mike Chambers m...@miketc.net wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 09:08 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
So...if a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists, does nouveau use it? If not,
how does one force its use?
the xorg.conf is used if it exists, and what's in it is used to
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 11:43 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
What I'm after is a way to tell the xserver to do it just like the
LiveCD does. I figure some boot (kernel?) parameter, or some command
line option supplied to the
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Anthony Messina amess...@messinet.comwrote:
On Thursday 24 December 2009 05:41:03 Kirk Lowery wrote:
Thanks for the response and the great idea! The same thing had occurred
to
me, especially as I had used this technique to install Fedora 10.
Only...there
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Rallias UberNerd
robinstar1...@gmail.comwrote:
Copy the xorg.conf file from the cd to where it belongs.
Hi, Rallias!
Thanks for the response and the great idea! The same thing had occurred to
me, especially as I had used this technique to install Fedora 10.
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 06:41 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
So how does nouveau get away without an xorg.conf?
The Xorg server will probe your monitor to get the information it needs
to configure it. This is known as EDID (no doubt someone here can tell
us what that acronym stands for). This is
On Thursday 24 December 2009 14:07:20 Greg Woods wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 06:41 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
So how does nouveau get away without an xorg.conf?
The Xorg server will probe your monitor to get the information it needs
to configure it. This is known as EDID (no doubt someone
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Greg Woods wo...@ucar.edu wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 06:41 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
So how does nouveau get away without an xorg.conf?
The Xorg server will probe your monitor to get the information it needs
to configure it. This is known as EDID (no
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 11:43 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
What I'm after is a way to tell the xserver to do it just like the
LiveCD does. I figure some boot (kernel?) parameter, or some command
line option supplied to the xserver at boot time?
Did you try System - Preferences - Display (GNOME)
On Thursday 24 December 2009 05:41:03 Kirk Lowery wrote:
Thanks for the response and the great idea! The same thing had occurred to
me, especially as I had used this technique to install Fedora 10.
Only...there isn't any xorg.conf! Neither on the LiveCD nor on the
installed hard disk! At
Copy the xorg.conf file from the cd to where it belongs.
On 12/17/09 2:04 PM, Kirk Lowery wrote:
I just installed Fedora 12 using the LiveCD. It discovered my nvidia
and samsung hardware with the dual monitors. In particular, it
stretched the default desktop background across both screens. All
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kirk Lowery
empirical.human...@gmail.com wrote:
I've played around with all the settings, googled for the problem, no joy. I
even installed the livna kmod drivers and they would only recognize one
monitor. Besides, the LiveCD did TheRightThing(tm), so it ought
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Michael Semcheski mhsemche...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kirk Lowery
empirical.human...@gmail.com wrote:
I've played around with all the settings, googled for the problem, no
joy. I
even installed the livna kmod drivers and they would
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