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automated conguration of xorg.conf on nvidia 6600Hi All. I have just installed lenny beta 2 on my pc; I'm having problems with xorg.conf (below): Section "InputDevice" Section "InputDevice" Section "Device" Section "Monitor" Section "Screen" As you can see, it is quite a sparse configuration. Running dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg results in the same configuration. |Adding Driver "vesa" to the device section doesn't help. In etch my video card and monitor were fully configured (albeit with the vesa driver). I can manually edit xorg.conf to add the necessary values, but this isn't arch, so does anyone know if there are any other automated configuration methods? It has occured to me that this could be an issue with hardware not being detected All the best, Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Re: automated conguration of xorg.conf on nvidia 6600
In Lenny (testing) xorg comes with an open driver called "nv" which works with most nVIDIA cards. Worked with my 8400 GS, so speculation says it should work with a 6600 as well. Only drawback - no 3D hardware accel - but fine for everyday work.
So, rerun dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and tell it to use the "nv" driver. Did the trick for me. YMMV, of course.
Re: automated conguration of xorg.conf on nvidia 6600
Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately the nv driver doesn't support the 6600 gpu-and by the looks of it probably never will. Running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg results in configuration above, so no joy there. I can't find a bug report that is relevamt to this issue. I guess I'll just leave it until 5.0 is released.
Re: automated conguration of xorg.conf on nvidia 6600
Have tried starting from
X -configure, then
X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
to see if that gives you something to work with?
The Xorg installation into my system was less than desireable, but that worked enough to get me going.