[PLUG] nVidia config issue

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 05:17:33 UTC 2019


Ah ok, so you got the driver going. Technically it is working the its
supposed to ;)

The config file lives in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Only root has access to this
folder so when you try to "save" the config, it actually just saves a
temporary copy. I think it puts it in your home directory somewhere. You
are supposed to copy it as root to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

That said, I have no idea if it will work. creating a manual xorg.conf is
not really the official way to do this anymore. Modern X servers use
template configs to generate a complete xorg.conf on the fly. The
SlackBuild you installed actually includes a mini version of this config to
get X to "see" the driver.

You can create an entirely new xorg.conf and do it the old school way if
you still want, but if you don't get all the different sections in there it
can be pretty wonky.

Try to copy the file to /etc/X11/ as root and restart X. If you have an old
xorg.conf file that you know works from Ubuntu it might do exactly what you
want. Unfortunately Ed is the expert on doing this since he has the big
Nvidia multi-monitor setup, I never touch xorg.conf manually these days.



On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:02 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 1/8/19 8:22 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> > <...>
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out what's broken here and I just can't see it.
> >
> > The subject of this thread was something about problems logging in.
> >
> > Turned out to be an issue with having the wrong nvidia driver installed.
> >
> > And now you say that X launches the nvidia-settings program runs as
> > expected.
> >
> > Looks to me like everything is working the way it's supposed
>
> Except that the X configuration does not survive log out or restart.
>
> I can change the X configuration to put the screens where I want them,
> but when I restart the changes are gone. I've used the button on the
> nVidia window to save the settings to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. But they don't
> stick. As I read xorg.conf, I couldn't see where those changes are. Is
> there someplace else that holds the information about which screen is
> which, and how they're displayed?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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