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[Raphael Gradenwitz <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Wayde,

Am Sonntag, den 04.10.2009, 21:46 +0200 schrieb Wayde:
> In karmic, there is no more xorg.conf but we can create one and the
> options in it are used when X starts.

In my Karmic still an xorg.conf exists, specially because of the uxa
acceleration:
        Option        "AccelMethod" "uxa"
Or do you know an other way without xorg.conf to use that acceleration?

> You have missed a ".1" in the libgl name in the part between the marks
> (>> .. <<)
> libgl='/usr/lib/libGL.so.1'
> libglx='/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so'

No, that is not forgotten, that is done extra! It does a readlink loop
until the last and real linktarget is found:

        while readlink $libgl; do
            libgl=/usr/lib/$(basename `readlink $libgl`);
        done
        
after that loop, the variable "$libgl" bears the last and definitive
target, even if that is not libGL.so.1 but (like in my case)
libGL.so.1.2 (or maybe in future: libGL.so.2.xy)

The system itself looks on LibGL.so (and reads the link), if that one
day gets a libGL.so.2 as target, my Script still works correct.

The same with the nvidia lib-version. You can update your nvidia driver,
my scripts will use allways the highest installed version it can find.

> And for the grub parameters in Karmic there is grub2, so we should add
> them to /etc/default/grub :
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=\"!Windows 2006\" acpi_backlight=vendor"

Thank you for that Information, My Machine does still use grub(1) for
compatibility reasons but I will provide your Information on the linked
website. Thanks.

> I'll continue the install and tell you what happens after.

Thank you in advance.
Raphael

> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Raphael Gradenwitz
> <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         Am Freitag, den 02.10.2009, 00:09 +0200 schrieb Raphael
>         Gradenwitz:
>         > ....
>         > I saw that there are different outputs from lspci on
>         different models,
>         
>         > so I had to change the init-scripts a little bit for
>         autodiscovery. [1]
>         > Finally i wrote a script called:
>         >
>         
>         >         /etc/X11/switch-x-to {intel|nvidia|
>         load-nvidia-settings} [2]
>         >
>         > that must be invoked with one of the three arguments between
>         the "{ }".
>         >
>         > the first two arguments are self explanatory, the last one I
>         use to load
>         > my nVidia Settings as I manage them in the settings-Manager
>         from nVidia:
>         >
>         >         sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
>         >
>         > that makes a complicated xorg.conf file unnecessary but one
>         have first
>         > to run the nvidia-settings manager and setup a rc-file, save
>         the
>         > settings you want to restore on reboot and enter the path to
>         that
>         > rc-file in the top of the 'switch-x-to'-script.
>         >
>         > Now I invoke this scripts with the Upstart mechanism with
>         the
>         
>         > file /etc/init/gdm.conf...
>         
>         I have changed this procedure again a little bit because after
>         an
>         upstart or gdm upgrade those changes could/(should) be
>         overwritten.
>         I now defined two upstart jobs. Those will not be overwritten.
>         
>         The exact changes I made and some other stuff is noted here:
>         
>         http://global-social.net/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=3
>         
>         
>         (Yes, I know, the server was down yesterday)
>         
>         regards,
>         Raphael
>         
>         
>         
>         > [1] = wiki-page explaining everything for newbies
>         > [2] = switch-x-to script
>         >
>         > [1] http://global-social.net/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=3
>         > [2] http://global-social.net/files/switch-x-to

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