[PLUG] nVidia settings errors

[Dick Steffens]

On 10/18/20 11:42 AM, Ken Stephens wrote:
(Similar responses from JJJ and Rich)
> 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.

Thanks to the three of you for your advice. Here's what I tried:

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rsteff at ENU-1:~/Desktop$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for rsteff:
root at ENU-1:~# nvidia-settings

(nvidia-settings:7397): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:52:52.323: 
g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

ERROR: App profile parse error in
/usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-340.108-key-documentation:
        '[' or '{' expected near end of file on <string>, line 1


** (nvidia-settings:7397): WARNING **: 10:52:52.477: PRIME: Failed to 
execute child process “/usr/bin/prime-supported” (No such file or 
directory)
** Message: 10:52:52.477: PRIME: is it supported? no
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It's looking like the driver installation isn't complete. My notes from 
when I installed xubuntu on this machine say:

Menu > System > Additional Drivers
     Found NVIDIA binary driver – version 340.108 from 
nvidia-340(Proprietary, tested)
     Selected that and clicked Apply Changes.

Since JJJ mentioned Ubuntu recently coming out with updated nVidia 
drivers, I'll try that next.

Any other recommendations appreciated.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens