Hey, some of you may recall that I got an LCD monitor. This monitor
rotates. I have XFree86 4.2.0, and I'm currently using the "nvidia" driver.
(my X config file is at http://24.94.123.65:81/XF86Config.bz2). I read that
the "nvidia" driver doesn't support on-the-fly rotation, but the "nv" driver
does. So I uncommented it in /etc/X11/XF86Config, and commented out the
other, reran startx, and got this:
...
Fatal server error:
no screens found
...
A look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log finds
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
but that shouldn't be fatal.
(II) LoadModule: "nv"
Didn't know that was considered a module, but OK.
(EE) No devices detected.
What? No cards that "nv" can handle?
lspci says:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0181 (rev c1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Unknown device 3842:3088
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 248 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at d7fe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
Status: RQ=31 SBA- 64bit- FW+ Rate=x1,x2,x4
Command: RQ=31 SBA- AGP+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x4
Do I need to upgrade X to make XRandR work? How much of a disruption is
that? Does rotation-on-demand always involve XRandR? Does any method sense
monitor rotation and adjust the screen automatically? Can it affect text
modes too, or only X?
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