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[Lightner, Jeff]

I truly detest emails without a subject.  It is rude as it doesn't give
the receiver a clue as to what is in it.   It also means to find it
again if desired one has to scan the contents of emails rather than the
subjects.   Finally many spam filters (including ours) block emails
without a subject - this one got through only because ALE's mail server
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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Avery Ceo
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 9:42 AM
To: rfaulkner at 34thprs.org; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run
Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] (no subject)

The specific reason you are getting the error message is here:

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV41 [GeForce 6800 GS]"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Your config is using the open source "nv" driver instead of the nVidia
proprietary "nvidia" driver.  If you change the line to:

Driver "nvidia"

the error message may go away.  Of course, so might X.  It is,
however, a place to start.

Avery

On 3/26/10, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> Trying to get dual-monitors running...that would make sense.  My 6800
> GS's are dual-head.  Perhaps I should try swapping-out the GPU's for a
> single-head PCI card to see what happens.  (Another project for the
> weekend).
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 00:11 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:04:58 -0400
>> Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 03/25/2010 11:34 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
>> > > Yeah...I could do that but that's not really the point.  I'm
>> > > ditching the Windows world for Linux and am starting at home.
I'm
>> > > getting ready to start Linux certs and recant from my MCSE way of
>> > > life.
>> > >
>> > > At one time I had tried hacking the randr entries but all that
did
>> > > was get 1680x1050 listed in the drop-down for resolution
selections
>> > > but was not recognized as a valid resolution on selection.  Very
>> > > curious...
>> > >
>> > > Since I've gotten over that hump and found that a simple config
file
>> > > will do the trick I'm looking elsewhere as the culprit that's
>> > > causing this video failure.  NV indicates it as an X issue and in
>> > > looking at the boot sequence I'm driven to suspect it as an X
issue
>> > > as well.  But then again I am a noob to Ubuntu as having been
away
>> > > from Unix/Linux for 10-years on any consistent basis.  Getting
>> > > ready to start on certs for Linux and turn from the "darkside".
>> >
>> > My thought is that if you use the proprietary, binary-only nvidia
>> > driver you're throwing away all the work you did getting a working
>> > xorg.conf with the free, open source nv driver.
>> >
>> > Whatever it is that you want to do with the nvidia graphics tools,
>> > perhaps there is another way of doing it that does not depend on
>> > proprietary software.
>> >
>> > It might also be worth booting the Ubuntu 10.04 beta live cd, which
>> > replaces the nv driver with the noveau driver, to see how well it
>> > works.
>> >
>> > http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1
>> >
>>
>> IIRC the OP is trying to get dual monitors working.
>>
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