Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:12:46 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia working? Message-ID: <478C169E.50800@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <44F2053B-6AC5-4CB2-81C2-C2AF10130F5B@u.washington.edu> References: <478BC29D.8030806@chuckr.org> <20080114152623.lnpqtvs0g880kogo@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> <44F2053B-6AC5-4CB2-81C2-C2AF10130F5B@u.washington.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 14, 2008, at 12:26 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > >> The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of >> your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver >> will be prefixed by NVIDIA (rather than VESA or NV if you were using a >> different driver). >> >> There is also x11/nvidia-settings port. It's a control panel of sorts >> that will show you nvidia-specific information. In theory it lets you >> control some settings as well but personally I've never found it >> useful for that. YMMV. OK, that left mre a ton of questions, but I think some time spent looking at files might answer them, so in case I can't answer them all, I'll be back at you. Thanks! >> JN > > Yeah, I agree on both points: > > 1. Xorg.*.log will most likely yield the info you need about the nvidia > driver. X -probe may as well.. > 2. nvidia-settings was sort of useless for my purposes.. you may or may > not discover that as well after using the tool. Its Windows counterpart > is much more useful. > > Cheers, > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjBaez62J6PPcoOkRApClAKChGW3QQgmDP3pR2XLkd4a2kM8lTQCdEy+j Tb6lrwjGIJvxsbMFAhNu2w0= =Xmxz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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