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[Ben Klausner <klausner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How would I create a custom Xorg config?

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 00:13, Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Apologies, my other comments stand though...
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> On 31/05/10 16:57, Ben Klausner wrote:
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> As I said in the original post, the janitor script was where I started.
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> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 23:30, Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>  It's still initializing the Intel card, my hard switch would work for you
>> here, but first try creating a specific Xorg config for the nVidia card -
>> are you using the janitor scripts?
>>
>>
>> On 31/05/10 14:13, Ben Klausner wrote:
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>> Well my last boot was with the arguments:
>>
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”i915.modeset=1″
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>> which I don't think is what you want. The previous boot was with no args
>> for that variable. The file for that is too big to append to a list, so I've
>> put a copy here <http://www.frijoles.net/Xorg.0.log.old.gz> temporarily.
>>
>> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 20:49, Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say?
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>>> On 31/05/10 13:21, Ben Klausner wrote:
>>>
>>> It's a VGN-Z530N, which was one of the earliest Z series. I've run W7 on
>>> it, but don't know if it is officially W7 supporting.
>>>
>>> That said, my problem is not what you describe in the blog post. I get a
>>> readable display, but can't start X.
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 16:34, Peter Fern <sonylinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you have a Win7 supporting BIOS, that doesn't work any more... is
>>>> this a VPC, or VGN?  For VGNs, you can read my post here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://0xc0dedbad.com/blog/2010/01/30/dual-boot-linux-and-windows-7-on-sony-vaio-z/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 31/05/10 05:47, Ben Klausner wrote:
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>>>>  Running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Z530N. Ran the janitor script, which seemed
>>>> to be successful. Made sure that /etc/default/grub had the line:
>>>>
>>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=\\\"!Windows 2006\\\""
>>>>
>>>> Rebooted a couple of times, and noticed that the boot messages came up
>>>> in a much smaller font than before, presumably because the screen was at a
>>>> higher res setting.
>>>>
>>>> But instead of the login splash, I get an error "can't open display",
>>>> and get dumped to the command line! Put GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX back the way it
>>>> was, rebooted twice (why does it take two boots?), and got back where I was,
>>>> with graphics, but locked in STAMINA mode.
>>>>
>>>> Suggestions?
>>>>
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