nvidia working?

Chuck Robey chuckr at chuckr.org
Mon Jan 14 18:42:55 PST 2008


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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
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