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Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
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* _How do I configure input for X?_ +
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Look at the link:../howto/configure-input.html[how to configure input] documentation.
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* _Why can’t I kill X through `Ctrl+Alt+Backspace`?_ +
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That’s explained in the above-mentioned documentation.
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* _What’s wrong with the DPI setting?_ +
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By the default, the X server uses 96 DPI, as seen on upstream bug
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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705[#23705] (in
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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705#c6[Keith’s comment]). A
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particular DPI setting can be set through desktop environment’s
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preferences, through the `-dpi` X server command line option (see
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++Xserver++’s manual page), or through ++xrandr++’s `--dpi` option.
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* _Why is it I’m getting low performances, or even crashes?_ +
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Make sure you have installed the
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link:http://packages.debian.org/firmware-linux&exact=1[`firmware-linux`
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package]. The driver might still be working without the firmware,
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but using code paths which aren’t supported as well as the “normal”
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* _Why isn’t it working?_ +
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KMS is mandatory, as documented in its `README.Debian` (view it
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http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-intel.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian[git.debian.org]). You
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probably disabled KMS or didn’t include it in your kernel
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configuration if you’re using a custom kernel.
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* _X is crashing all the time with my “old” Intel card. What can I do?_ +
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Unfortunately, old cards are not very well supported, and you can’t
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do much more than switching to a generic driver, like `fbdev` or
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`vesa`, as documented in `README.Debian` (view it online:
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http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-intel.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian[git.debian.org]). Please
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note that you need to disable `KMS` if you want to use the `vesa`
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driver. A minimal `xorg.conf` would look like:
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Identifier "MyBuggyCard"
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* _Why isn’t it working?_ +
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Since it’s still considered experimental by its authors, the
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interfaces aren’t stable yet, so the driver has particular
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dependencies on the kernel, which are documented in `README.Debian`
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http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian;h=27ced6b1bf5102a5b72525318439efdfb330745d;hb=6c2f12ca18f55b55d49e083d86d87d970ce53a07[for squeeze],
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http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.Debian[for sid]).
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* _How to start a bare X session (without Gnome, KDE, etc.)?_ +
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Assuming there’s no X running on the `:1` display, run this from a
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startx /usr/bin/xterm -- :1