On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 18:52:04 -0500 Neil <djdualcore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Joe Hartley <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Because who else would even care besides you lot? > > > > You are right about me caring, at least. I have had so much trouble with > video cards over the years I'm very glad to hear when one works, more so > when the Free drivers work. > > > > I'd pre-installed the nouveau packages from Arch, and once the > > new card was in place, two simple config file changes and a mkinitcpio > > later I was rocking it. > > > > Which file did you need to edit? One was /etc/mkinitcpio.conf - I added nouveau to the MODULES line so that the module got loaded early. It made things a lot easier. I also added /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf so that Xorg would pick up the card. This page ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/nouveau ) made it really easy to move from my old ATI card to the nVIDIA one. Once I had a vaguely functional X display happening, I used arandr to set and save the screen resolutions and positions. Because the GT 640 has 4 ports on the back (2 DVI, 1 VGA and 1 HDMI), and I happened to have 4 monitors here, I went nuts and set them all up. It was a little piece of Nerdvana for me when it worked, but I realized that since I don't do SysAdmin any more, I don't need the status screens so 4 screens was pure overkill for me. It was cool that it worked though! -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
