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From: mjt on 2 Jul 2010 02:00 On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:25:54 -0600 Will Honea <whonea(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > If the latest RC2 is any indication, the process has worked nicely with one > very major exception: video. The setup/configuration has been changed to > deprecate sax2 and NVIDIA, especially older versions, seem to be a major > PITA. I know that is the case here - I have to go through all sorts of > gyrations to get video configured acceptably. I'll consider myself fortunate ... I had **zero** interaction with the configuration of X with the NVIDIA card ... all was set automagically, including the resolution of the 30" monitors (11.3 RC1/2) were set for the max resolution avail. -- At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. - The Washington Post Magazine, 9 June, 1985 <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>>
From: Will Honea on 2 Jul 2010 12:11
mjt wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:25:54 -0600 > Will Honea <whonea(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> If the latest RC2 is any indication, the process has worked nicely with >> one >> very major exception: video. The setup/configuration has been changed to >> deprecate sax2 and NVIDIA, especially older versions, seem to be a major >> PITA. I know that is the case here - I have to go through all sorts of >> gyrations to get video configured acceptably. > > I'll consider myself fortunate ... I had **zero** interaction > with the configuration of X with the NVIDIA card ... all was > set automagically, including the resolution of the 30" monitors > (11.3 RC1/2) were set for the max resolution avail. If I could get that result I would be one happy camper. BTW, my problems are pretty clearly hardware specific to the machines. In both cases, the boot.log shows anomalies with the APIC responses which apparently mess up the auto-detection/setup and the recovery is not, shall we say, graceful ;-) -- Will Honea |