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xserver-xorg-video-trident package

  1. Bug #63051
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 63051

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Mark Craig (mark-craig) wrote :

The fix that I found seems to apply only to the trident driver, which has the new AccelMethod option that seems not to exist in 6.06 LTS.

I wonder what has changed in the nVidia driver for Edgy, maybe there are some new options possible there, too. I think you can get Xorg -configure to generate the list of possible options. Log out and go to a virtual terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F1 for example. Login in the virtual terminal. Then stop the X session:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

With the X session stopped, you can run Xorg -configure to get the output:

$ sudo Xorg -configure

This generates an xorg.conf in the current directory. When I did that on the laptop, the xorg.conf I got had all the options listed and commented out. I took some fiddling to find out which combinations actually worked.

Furthermore, I don't see a man page for the nVidia driver. (There is one for the trident driver, and there is one for nv but I'm not sure that applies to the nVidia driver you install separately.) So maybe there's even more guesswork to do :-(