[PLUG] nVidia settings errors

Ken Stephens kennethgstephens at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 18:42:45 UTC 2020


Couple of things:   1.  Did you try to change ownership of
/home/rsteff/.config/ibus/bus to root?
2.  I you want to appear exactly like root when you sudo do:  'sudo su -'
The dash makes su take
the new user's environment.  Sometimes it's handy to keep your environment
sometimes it's not.

HTH

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:20 AM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:28:52 -0700
> Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> dijo:
>
> >I have an nVidia card in the computer in the living room with its HDMI
> >port connected to the TV. When I boot up the machine the primary
> >screen is the TV. But with the underscan issue (described some years
> >ago), it is hard to click on the controls at the top of the screen.
> >I've tried changing the default screen with nvidia-settings, but the
> >changes never take. This morning I remembered  that I'm supposed to
> >run nvidia-settings with sudo. The OS is xubuntu 18.04. I get this
> >message when I run nvidia-settings:
> >
> > <snippage>
>
> I can't give you details, but a couple of things might help.
>
> First, Ubuntu recently came out with updated versions of some of their
> nVidia drivers. They were in the update manager for 18.04 and, with
> great trepidation, I installed them when they first appeared.
> Thankfully, they worked.
>
> Second, you might try switching to root instead of using sudo. I don't
> fully understand why, but apparently there are some differences. To
> become root you do 'sudo su.' One thing that I learned a long time ago
> is that 'su' means 'switch user,' not 'super user.'
>
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