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[Wayde <didinux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Raphael,

I have do all the steps described in your blog post and i think that i have
some issues (when using nvidia and try to start my skype camera gdm restarts
! )
In boot process i can see an err msg (init: switch-x ended...)
Could you please tell me how can i debug and send you more informations?

Thanks in advance.
--
Wayde.


On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Raphael Gradenwitz <
raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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