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Old 02-21-2008, 05:37 AM
Ottavio Caruso
 
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Default Re: xorg: where's the super/extended vga driver?

Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> Ottavio Caruso <pr0f3ss0r1492@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > This default xorg.conf uses the vesa driver, so I am going to stick
> > with it, although I'm not sure it was the most elegant solution...

>
> The best thing would be to use a driver optimized for your hardware.
> Cards from different graphics vendors use different drivers. It would be
> useful if you knew what kind of card you have, but X is rather good at
> finding out this if you do:
>
> X --configure


This is one of the routes I have gone through and indeed the generated
xorg.conf.new indicated me that I should use the cirrus driver.

But then, what do I do with that file? If I merge it into xorg.conf
all I get is a 800x600 X server with a cross in the middle.

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Ottavio
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