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Virtual mouse driver, possible X11 problems
I created virtual mouse driver according to Essential Linux Device Drivers book. After I wrote coordinates echo x y > /sys/ ... /coordinates into sysfs node, my program generates event packets ...
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How to setup GParted video mode in Oracle Virtualbox?
I'm trying to boot GParted live 0.14.1-6 within Oracle Virtualbox 4.2.6 r82870 (Extension Pack installed).
The host OS is Windows 7, the physical graphic card is an AMD Radeon HD 6900.
The physical ...
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Xorg not working on Arch Linux
I installed Arch i686 on a VirtualBox VM (I have an nvidia GT610). I ran the following commmand as root:
pacman -S nvidia
After installation and rebooting, I ran
pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit ...
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Possible missing firmware
I've just installed Backtrack 5 r3 (Gnome, 64bits) on my new machine but I am kind of facing a problem.
I tried installing ATI driver, gparted, and libc for 32-bit support and I always seem to be ...
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Laptop falls-back to Vesa video-driver
I own Dell Inspiron 15R SE (7520) and I have installed Arch Linux on it. It seems that I have two video-cards so I have installed both drivers + Vesa driver (pardon me if that's wrong).
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Fedora 15 Crash after xorg.conf file update
I updated my xorg.conf file looking to set up a dual screen system. Unfortunately, I can't provide you this file because when I went to reboot my system crashed.
The last line I get when I try to ...
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How can I fix my X11 draw garbled icons?
I'm running linux mint 12:
$ cat /etc/issue
Linux Mint 12 Lisa \n \l
This started happening recently:
And I'm not sure why. It's not just limited to the above icons and text.
$ lspci | ...
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How to find the best monitor resolution and put it to work? Fedora
In this question I'm asking how to install a compatible driver to a Fedora machine, but, the main problem is a bad resolution.
So, how can I find the best resolution to my monitor and put it to work?
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Xorg.conf, which modules should be loaded for better performance?
In general what is supposed to be in the Module section of the Xorg.conf file in order to get maximum performance from a graphic card?
At the moment my Module section is empty... also because I ...
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differences between vesa and fbdev Xorg drivers?
What are the differences between the 'VESA' driver and the 'fbdev' driver for Xorg? Both have no hardware acceleration a.f.a.i.k.
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Xorg with Intel G41 videocard
My PC has an integrated Intel G41 video. I have been running Debian Squeeze for several years without any problems. Recently I upgraded to Wheezy and now after my computer wakes from sleep, X appears ...
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changing xorg driver for netbook with cedarview integrated graphics
So I was messing around. I installed debian, everything worked fine. I had to re-install debian for whatever reason. It decided to do something different and now I'm stuck with a 800x600 resolution ...
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Achieving full resolution with PowerVR SGX454 on Ubuntu 12.04
I have a Mini-PC with an ASRock AD2700B-ITX motherboard, which has an Intel PowerVR SGX545 on-board graphic chip. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it today.
Everything is working properly and is quite ...
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Reload xserver-xorg-input-mouse
Can I reload xserver-xorg-input-mouse driver on the fly? For example, after I modify and recompile the source
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What's the easiest way to find out relevant video card/driver information
I need to know my video card/chipset, X11 Driver, driver version, and Xorg version. It seems to me that finding this information is always scattered throughout various utilities. Is there an easy way ...
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Chrooted drivers
If the host has the kernel drivers properly loaded, would the
chrooted enviroment be able to use them (ex. wireless, power)?
Does the chrooted enviroment need its Xorg drivers to be configured or ...
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how to close X Server, to avoid errors while updating nvidia driver?
I tried to update my nvidia driver but i got an error when i ran the driver installation.
See the error:
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
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Error installing xserver-xorg-video-* package from squeeze-backports in Debian Squeeze
I wanted to upgrade my Intel Core i[357] Integrated Graphics (Arrandale) driver so that DRI would work.
But some packages were broken in the middle of the installation.
username@hostname:~$ sudo ...
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Xorg -configure doesn't work with nouveau drivers
I'm having problems setting up X.org on Gentoo.
At the moment I have kernel 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 installed and have built X against this kernel. I have nouveau drivers installed and they seem to be ...
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Xvideo extension not active with the radeon driver
On my computer running Debian squeeze with the radeon driver, the XVideo extension doesn't work (the extension itself is there but the hardware is not supported). xvinfo shows
X-Video Extension ...
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Using many monitors (4+) in linux
I want to be able to run more than 4 monitors (maybe 6) and it's extremely confusing what's compatible now with the Displayport cards coming out. Right now I have an ATI card that only has 2 HDMI ...
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Step by step guide to setup display resolutions in xorg
The default xorg configuration file created does not allow me to set up the display resolution I want (1360x768).
The auto configuration command xorg -configure didn't create the proper configuration ...
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How to Fix Choppy Video Playback in Ubuntu?
On Ubuntu 10.04 I experience choppy video playback.
I am running Mplayer and have an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ video card. I have already installed the libvdpau1 library. I don't know if hardware ...
