http://fossplanet.com/f10/real-time-kernel-nvidia-41885/
<http://fossplanet.com/f10/real-time-kernel-nvidia-41885/>^^ about using proprietary nvidia drivers with -realtime kernels On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 16:00 +0300, Janne Jokitalo wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:34:20AM +0200, Ralf wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > Hello! > > > > > I installed Natty. The installer detected the correct keyboard layout, > > > but set it to a wrong layout. I guess I can solve this myself ;) > > > > Right. I'm not sure how the detection routines are at the moment, but > I've also > > learnt from the past the one layout I want to use, and then always select > that > > manually. Always works for me. > > And where do you select it, assumed you're not using a DE, but e.g. > Ion2? > > > > especially because X settings, as usual for Ubuntu installs, are > > > ridiculous and I need to set up a xorg.conf. > > > > This is interesting; can you specify the nature of these problems, and > maybe > > give some hardware information? > > Yes, no display, but a CRT, that's enough to get grotesque settings, > such as limitations for screen resolutions that can be chosen and nice > stroboscope like frequencies only. > > And in addition, I wish to be able to select a graphics driver, > regarding to the kernel I'll use. It's needed because I don't know how > to add the proprietary graphics module to the kernel-rt and even if this > should work, sometimes I don't wish to run real-time kernels with the > proprietary driver, regarding to audio performance. But for some usage > 3D is needed. > > I switch at startup, regarding to the booted kernel, between the nv and > nvidia driver, I'm doing this by the attached Rc script. > And as mentioned before, I also need to set up frequencies and > resolution to chose for my monitor correctly. > > After setting up a classic xorg.conf, the mouse wheel doesn't work any > more. I deleted the mouse and keyboard entries in xorg.conf and only > kept graphic card and monitor settings, now the mouse wheel does work > again. > > The main issue is to get the correct monitor settings for the first > time. > > I'm using GNOME only at the moment, hence I don't know how settings for > X, mouse and keyboard are currently handled by Ubuntu. I e.g. set the > keyboard layout by GDM and usually it's not good to add "Virtual 3840 > 1200" to your xorg.conf, because this would become default for GDM then, > the virtual screen issue isn't tested with Natty until now. If you use > frame based environments, such as Ion, there are no DE apps to set > screens and keyboards, this was done by xorg.conf and I had issues last > time I tried to use several kind of UIs. > > > > The GRUB menu entries also, as usual, are a PITA. > > > > Again, quite intriguing. How are they a pain? > > # cd /boot/grub > # cp -pr grub.cfg grub.cfg.natty > # update-grub2 > # cp -pr grub.cfg grub.cfg.bad > # cp -pr grub.cfg.natty grub.cfg > > See attachments, "video", screen resolution, wanted entries differ > between what I need (manually edited, grub.cfg) and what is > auto-generated (grub.cfg.bad). This can be much more worse. I tided up > my HDDs, before I did this, there were a billion distros listed, that > were not installed anymore. > > Ralf > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > > -- MH http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/ http://wnclug.ourproject.org/
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