5 Jul
2014
5 Jul
'14
5:35 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 18:52:04 -0500
Neil <djdualcore(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Joe Hartley
<jh(a)brainiac.com> wrote:
One was /etc/mkinitcpio.conf - I added nouveau to the MODULES line so that
the module got loaded early. It made things a lot easier.
I also added /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf so that Xorg would
pick up the card.
This page ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/nouveau ) made it really
easy to move from my old ATI card to the nVIDIA one.
Once I had a vaguely functional X display happening, I used arandr to set
and save the screen resolutions and positions.
Because the GT 640 has 4 ports on the back (2 DVI, 1 VGA and 1 HDMI), and I
happened to have 4 monitors here, I went nuts and set them all up. It was
a little piece of Nerdvana for me when it worked, but I realized that since
I don't do SysAdmin any more, I don't need the status screens so 4 screens
was pure overkill for me. It was cool that it worked though!
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Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh(a)brainiac.com
Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa
Because who else would even care besides you
lot?
You are right about me caring, at least. I have had so much trouble with
video cards over the years I'm very glad to hear when one works, more so
when the Free drivers work.
I'd pre-installed the nouveau packages from
Arch, and once the
new card was in place, two simple config file changes and a mkinitcpio
later I was rocking it.
Which file did you need to edit?