On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:21:07PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:54:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > My question is about running nvidia-settings. I'm finding that if I > > shell into his machine using > > > > ssh -X -Y -C IP-address > > > > and run nvidia-settings I get it displayed here, as it should be. The > > problem is it is seeing my GTX 465 and not his 8400GS. > > Looking at the man page, it appears you need to use the -ctrl-display > parameter or the $DISPLAY env var. The man page mentions that > nvidia-settings queries the X server, which is running locally. It looks > like this setting may force it to use another.
as neil wrote, it is nvidia-settings -c :0 nvidia-settings connects to the remote xserver to communicate with the graphics card (through a special nvidia xtenstion to the x protocol), so you need to be able to access the remote xserver, if you are logged in as the user running the xserver, you should be ok yoy
