Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:07:08 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia working? Message-ID: <44F2053B-6AC5-4CB2-81C2-C2AF10130F5B@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20080114152623.lnpqtvs0g880kogo@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> References: <478BC29D.8030806@chuckr.org> <20080114152623.lnpqtvs0g880kogo@newwebmail.jnielsen.net>
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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. > > 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
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