Re: [gdm-list] gdm won't run after upgrade...

[Morgan Read <mstuff read org nz>]

On 07/11/10 16:01, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Morgan Read <mstuff read org nz> wrote:
>> I now have to make some admissions:)
>> I was using nvidia drivers from rpmfusion on f12 before the upgrade;
>> after the upgrade to fb14 they no longer worked - I think it was more
>> complicated than that because I was using drivers compiled via akmod for
>> the CCRMA rt kernel:
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1395490
>>
>> Anyway, it didn't work after upgrade - I wasn't surprised.  So, I
>> removed anything nvidia, akmod and anything else I could think of that
>> might be getting in the way.  I installed the mesa packages for nouveau
>> and commented out rdblacklist=nouveau in /boot/grub/grub.conf.  That
>> caused the screen resolution to be reset during boot (when it hadn't
>> before) which I assumed meant I had the driver and Xorg side of things
>> working - but perhaps not...
>>
>> (iirc I had looked over Xorg.log which prompted the above)
>>
>> Anyway, /var/log/gdm/:0.log & /var/log/Xorg.0.log copied below - which
>> seem to show a lack of a driver to my eyes, but after taking the system
>> back to nouveau from the proprietary nvidia drivers where to now?
> 
> In your log I see this:
> 
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> 
> You shouldn't need a config file with nouveau.  I'd try just removing
> it (or tucking it away somewhere where X won't find it)

Yup, that's it!  Thank you sooo much - but, I've looked over the nouveau
pages looking to implement the 3d in mesa (haven't managed) and it
mentions the xorg.conf file all over the place?  Is this a very recent
change?  If so, where are the prefs kept & shouldn't the upgrade have
taken it out?  If I go back to the nvidia proprietary drivers (which
unfortunately I'll inevitably do) should I put the xorg.conf back in
(re-label)?

Very many thanks,
M.
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