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 On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:54 AM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/7/19 3:37 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Wait a second.... why is nvidia-settings trying to create an xorg.conf > > file? I thought the program was nvidia-xconfig .. > > It occurred to me that if I have a correct nVidia setup on my Ubuntu > machine, which has a very similar monitor setup, I could compare the > xorg.config files with each other and maybe edit the one on the > Slackware machine to match as appropriate. With the exception of the > nVidia model, the two files are identical. On the Ubuntu machine I have > a GeForce 210. > > I hadn't heard of nvidia-xconfig, so I ran it. > > root@ENU-2:/etc/X11# nvidia-xconfig > > Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". > Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as > '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original' > Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup' > New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' > > root@ENU-2:/etc/X11# > > When I log out I'm back at run level 3. I run startx again and it comes > up with mirrored screens. I run nvidia-settings from the menu and I can > uncover the smaller screen, put it to the left, set it as the primary > display, click apply, and I get what I want. The smaller monitor on the > left with the menu bar at the top and the launcher bar at the bottom, > and the larger monitor to the right with nothing but wallpaper. I can't > save the configuration from this invocation, so I quit. open a terminal, > log in as root, and it still shows the settings I set up as rsteff. I > can save to xorg.conf. I log out, log back in, and the setting are back > to mirrored, with the menu and launch bars back on the right hand monitor. > > I thought xorg.conf is where those settings were being stored. Is there > somewhere else I need to be looking? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
