Are you using LXDE?

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 01:32:41 UTC 2009


John Aldrich wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Can you supply a package name? I tried "yum install noveau" and didn't
>>> find squat. :-(
>> On the T61 I have:
>>
>> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.11-1.20090106git133c1a5.fc10.x86_64
>>
>> and in /etc/X11/xorg.conf set
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> 	Identifier  "Videocard0"
>> 	Driver      "nouveau"
>> EndSection
>>
>> if it currently says "nv" or "vesa"
>>
> I don't HAVE an xorg.conf. How does one configure Fedora 10 to use the 
> nouveau driver if one does not have an xorg.conf? I know that the "old" way 
> used to be to hand-edit the xorg.conf, but since that doesn't exist any 
> more, I'm at a loss for how to fix this. I know that it's installed as when 
> I tried to install it earlier yum said it was already installed.
> 

I think you can pick which display driver you want to use from one of 
the menus in System>>Administration. Right now at work so can't confirm 
the exact menu with the option, sorry.

HTH

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Suvayu

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