SOLVED Lenovo T61p xorg.conf file

jdewberry · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 30

Hi,

I am setting up a Lenovo T61P and am having a bear of a time with X. Does anyone have a good xorg.conf file they'd be willing to share?

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Joe

Drone1 · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject:

2 things.

What video chipset is in the T61p?

Which driver version are you using for that chipset?

jdewberry · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 30

Hi,

see this from lspci:

Intel Corporation 82801H

here's my nvidia drivers:

localhost ~ # eix nvidia
* media-gfx/nvidia-cg-toolkit
Available versions: 1.5.0 ~1.5.0023
Homepage: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html
Description: nvidia's c graphics compiler toolkit

[I] media-video/nvidia-settings
Available versions: 1.0.20070621 ~169.04
Installed versions: 1.0.20070621(21:27:13 12/20/07)
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA Linux X11 Settings Utility

[I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Available versions: 1.0.7185 1.0.9639 71.86.01 96.43.01 100.14.09 ~100.14.11 100.14.19 [M]~100.14.23 {acpi gtk kernel_linux multilib}
Installed versions: 100.14.19(20:58:41 12/20/07)(gtk kernel_linux -acpi -multilib)
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/
Description: NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries

Drone1 · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject:

The lspci output didn't help, but according to thinkwiki.org, you have a Quadro FX 570M.

Does that VGA adapter even show up in lspci run as root?

What does your Xorg log say when you try and run X?
What video options do you have compiled into the kernel?

Look here for starters.

dkpool · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Seattle

I got a T61P here too. So the video card should be FX570.
You may refer to the gentoo nvidia guide for some infomations, including the kernel configuration.
So I wrote:
VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia
in /etc/make.conf
Then emerge xorg-x11, this will emerge the nvidia-drivers automatically.
Then you can run:
nvidia-xconfig
which generate a xorg.conf file automatically.
This works for my laptop during system reinstall, yesterday. Hope this may help

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jdewberry · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 30

Hi Dkpool,

I did just that...now when I startx I get this in my log:

===================================================
(WW) NVIDIA(0): be able to respond to display change hotkey events.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(--) NVIDIA(0): No video decoder detected
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Need libwfb but wfbScreenInit not found

Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
===================================================

and I can't kill X.

jdewberry · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 30

Dkpool

can I have a look at your .config also ?

TIA,

JD

jdewberry · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 30

followed the wiki step by step:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml

works perfectly.

jdewberry · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 30

resolved...thanks for the help/tips.