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[Alexandre Kaspar <alexandre.kaspar@xxxxxxx>]

Hi

Chris Down <feyd2blak@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Hi Alexandre
>
> I hope you don't mind me e-mailing you out of the blue, I got your   
> e-mail address from the Launchpad forum.
>
> I was wondering if you would mind helping me?......

I'll try since I know it's important to get help for such a problem  
and I would really like to get one.

> I have a vaio z and am running Fedora 10, Fedora 11 in twenty, odd,   
> days time.....when it comes out....
>
> I read you were able to get the proprietary nvidia driver to work on  
>  your fed 10 install....
>
> Is it possible you could help me do the same. I have found I can't   
> install Eva's sony-laptop.c version 0.8 or 0.9....did you install   
> these to get the 9300 going?

No. I tried to install it, but it didn't work. I got some error :

> If not, how did you get it working?, I have broken X so many times   
> now and reinstalled Fedora multiple times, all with no luck....
>
> Please help......; ), look forward to hearing from you...
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> PS Bernd sent me a copy of his xorg.conf-nvidia which he had working  
>  so I will try that in the mean time....

Ok, here is mine too, but it's a generic xorg file for nvidia :
# xorg.conf-nvidia
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# keyboard added by rhpxl
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "ch"
	Option	    "XkbVariant" "fr"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "LCD Panel 1360x768"
	HorizSync    31.5 - 48.0
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 65.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

#
# xorg.conf-nvidia EOF

Hoping you'll find a solution, have a nice week
Alexandre Kaspar

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