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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:09 pm    Post subject: SOLVED Lenovo T61p xorg.conf file Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

2 things.

What video chipset is in the T61p?

Which driver version are you using for that chipset?
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:03 am    Post subject: Re: Lenovo T61p xorg.conf file Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dkpool

can I have a look at your .config also ?

TIA,

JD
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:31 am    Post subject: Solved Reply with quote

followed the wiki step by step:


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

works perfectly.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:22 am    Post subject: Resolved Reply with quote

resolved...thanks for the help/tips.
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