<quote who="elliott-brennan"> > I'm curious as to the reason why there's be an empty xorg.conf file anyway > and whether the cable-connected dual nvidia cards (they're about two years > old. Identical models. 512Mbs. Can't recall the exact specs) would play > some part in this - though I can't think of why.
An empty (or very short, generic) xorg.conf is normal these days -- X can figure out everything it needs dynamically, so only in rare circumstances does it require a serialised configuration. Sounds like you might be fighting some hardware in limbo between good FLOSS and proprietary driver support. To make sure Xorg is reconfigured once you have the proprietary drivers installed, run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure --priority=high xserver-xorg Beyond that, we're going to need to see /var/log/Xorg.0.log in order to know the exact failure. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.lca2010.org.nz/ o/~ we all live in a yellow subroutine o/~ - auspex -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
