[olug] Graphics Card for Fedora 10

[T. J. Brumfield]

Very cool.  I haven't looked at F10 yet because F9 really turned me
off with a KDE4-only-yet-not-ready-for-primetime release.  That being
said, I think Fedora and openSUSE are the two biggest innovators out
there, largely because Red Hat and Novell have the cash to pay
developers.

I heard in Ubuntu there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all anymore.
You can create one, but you would have to create one from scratch.

-- T. J.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:
> No, you can still edit xorg.conf, you just won't have to anymore. A lot of
> the boilerplate entries have been removed because X.Org's autoconfiguration
> features make them unneccessary, which I think is a very good thing. It's a
> lot less intimidating than it used to be back in the XFree86 days.
>
> The GUI, when released, is basically just a frontend for xorg.conf. They've
> released the Python Parser and Validation engines, I believe, but the GUI
> interface isn't complete yet. It's been designed to be desktop agnostic, so
> when the GTK interface is done they plan on creating a Qt version as well.
>
> Here's the project
> blueprint<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/xorg-options-editor>on
> Launchpad.
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:09 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> You should be able to just hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a CLI, kill
>> gdm/kdm/whatever, and then check /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make necessary
>> changes.  Then again Ubuntu completely dumped /etc/X11/xorg.conf so
>> you can't make manual changes anymore.  I wonder if F10 did the same.
>>
>> You should be able to fail back and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it
>> exists and just load a Vesa video driver for the moment being until
>> you get it sorted out.
>>
>> -- T. J.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:
>> > What GPU are those cards using? I think the open-source nv driver started
>> > supporting G80 GPUs this summer, so Fedora 10 should have support for
>> that.
>> > I wouldn't count on 9000 series cards working, you'll still need the
>> nVidia
>> > driver.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Jay Woods <woodsjay at cox.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've looked around the usual google/fedora sources for a recommended
>> >> pci-express ati/nvidia graphics card. No joy. Does anyone know one that
>> >> works
>> >> on installation. I have a couple that give me a scrambled or black
>> screen.
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