I did not say you should create the settings file in your home directory. Nor did I suggest or advise it in any way.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 9:45 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com wrote: > On 1/8/19 9:17 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > 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 > > I've been running nvidia-settings as root and saving directly to > /etc/X11. Just now I tried it as you suggested and saved xorg.conf to my > home directory. I then started a terminal, logged in as root, cd'd to > /etc/X11, renamed xorg.conf to back it up, and then copied > /home/rsteff/xorg.conf to /etc/X11. Then I logged out of root, logged > out of the current X session, and logged back in. Same result. Next I > tried a restart. Same result. > > BTW, when I start a terminal I expect to see a prompt that looks like: > > rsteff@ENU-2:~$ > > But what I see is: > > bash-4.3$ > > Is that normal? > > When I log in via ssh I do get: > > rsteff@ENU-2:~$ > > > > > > > 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. > > I tried that just now, changing the GeForce 210 to GeForce GT 610. Same > result as all the other times. > > I must be missing something. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
