startx while specifying configuration?

[William Park]

Strange that it works for you.  My machine crashes during boot if I have 'nouveau' driver installed.
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William



----- Original Message -----
> From: William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins at utoronto.ca>
> To: tlug <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 3:09:18 PM
> Subject: [TLUG]: startx while specifying configuration?
> 
> I have an nVidia-based video card.  Most of the time, I would rather use
> the nouveau driver - it works, it's snappy, and it doesn't take any
> hoop-jumping to "just work".  It doesn't do OpenGL, however, which 
> I
> occasionally want.  I'd like to specify with xorg.conf to use when I
> startx, rather than "mv"-ing configuration files around.  Is there a 
> way
> to do this?
> 
> man startx and man xinitrc provide no guidance, and I couldn't find
> anything with the aid of Google.
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> 
> yours,
> 
> William
>
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