Using native resolution 1920x1080x24 60 Hz

[ECHOSIDE]

I have never posted a topic in any forum that has received so many helpful and thoughtful responses. All of you seem informed and willing to help a newbie. The Tiny Core community seems pretty cool.

I'm going to go for Xorg now. Hopefully that will get me to my native resolution without too much more effort.

[ECHOSIDE]

By reading http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:using_xorg_over_xvesa, I learned that the way to get out of "confless" mode was to create /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I took ownership of the directory and created the file to spec, but when I reboot, the directory /X11/ and file are gone. I must be missing something fundamental about the filesystem or the implementation of persistence.

I feel like I'm at a wall. Does anyone have any advice on how to proceed?

Thank you.

[Juanito]

add etc/X11/xorg.conf to /opt/filetool.lst and use the cpanel gui to make a backup

[ECHOSIDE]

Ok, that worked. I've also got a clearer understanding of how persistence works in Tiny Core. Learning commands and syntax for Xorg.conf has been time consuming. Do I need drivers for my video card "[GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M] (rev a2)"? If so, should I get the drivers from Nvidia's website or from somewhere else?

[gerald_clark]

There are 2 nvidia xorg drivers in the repo.
xf86-video.nv.tcz
and
xf86-video-nouveau.tcz

Try each one separately.
It looks like the nouveau driver supports your video card.

[Misalf]

I have an nvidia (geforce 210) card and can only use Xvesa or proprietary nvidia drivers if using Xorg.
Anything else is unusable slow on my system.

On TC 4.7.7 I've created an nvidia drivers extension using scripts by Rich:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12965.msg71304.html#msg71304

However, the driver did not work correctly when compiled under TC 5.x . I think some dependencies, which I might have just copied from TC 4.x, need to get rebuild for 5.x .

[coreplayer2]

Just get the source for the latest driver from nvidia's web site and compile that against full Linux sources

Instructions are included, use those

And no deps needed

[Misalf]

Thanks I'll try.
Maybe Rich's scripts are 'outdated'.

[jls]

https://code.google.com/p/tc-ext-tools/source/browse/packages/nvidia#nvidia%253Fstate%253Dclosed

[ECHOSIDE]

I installed the nouveau driver and I'm now getting the error "failed on WaitforX". I'm not sure if I need to specify something in order for X to start or if I should remove the driver. I don't know how to remove the driver from the command line. At least I know I can get into X with the generic driver. Is there an option I should try from here? If not, how can I remove this driver from the command line?

Regards from the Lynx browser,

Thank you

[Rich]

Hi ECHOSIDE
You could remove the  nouveau   entry from your  onboot.lst  file.