It??™s important to get this section right. The
Xorg command described earlier usually does a good job detecting the driver. If you
want to change to a different one, this is where to do so. Here??™s an example of the Device
section after I added a video driver from NVIDIA to my system (the driver name is nv):
Section ???Device???
Identifier ???Card0???
Driver ???nv???
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VendorName ???nVidia Corporation???
BoardName ???Unknown Board???
BusID ???PCI:1:0:0???
EndSection
Screen resolution??”The last major piece of information you may want to add is the
screen resolution and color depth. There will be a screen resolution associated with each
video card installed on your computer. The Screen section defines default color depths
(such as 8, 16, or 24) and modes (such as 1024 ?— 768, 800 ?— 600, or 640 ?— 480). Set
the DefaultDepth to the number of bits representing color depth for your system,
and then add a Modes line to set the screen resolution.
To read more about how to set options in your xorg.conf file, type man xorg.conf. If your X server
is XFree86, type man XF86Config.
Choosing a Window Manager
Fully integrated desktop environments have become somewhat unfriendly to changing out window
managers. However, you can completely bypass KDE or GNOME, if you like, and start your desktop
simply with X and a window manager of your choice.
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