Re: [PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

2019-01-03 Thread King Beowulf
On 1/3/19 9:40 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 1/3/19 5:55 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: >> First, which nvidia card do you have? Model #? > > From lshw: > > > id: > display > description: VGA compatible controller > product: GF119 [GeForce GT 610] > vendor: NVIDIA Corporation > physical i

Re: [PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

2019-01-03 Thread Ben Koenig
Ed might want to chime in since he is the master of nvidia.slackbuild, but I think the 610 is not supported on driver 410. You might need 390 instead. Nvidia's website doesn't list the 610 in the list of supported products for v410, but it does for 390. Maybe you need the legacy version? On Thu,

Re: [PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

2019-01-03 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/3/19 5:55 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: First, which nvidia card do you have? Model #? From lshw: id: display description:VGA compatible controller product:GF119 [GeForce GT 610] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@:01:00.0 version:

Re: [PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

2019-01-03 Thread Ben Koenig
First, which nvidia card do you have? Model #? Second, you want to make sure you have both nvidia slackbuilds installed $ ls -l /var/log/packages |grep nvidia You should see nvidia-driver and nvidia-kernel. Third, make sure the nvidia kernel module is loaded. $ lsmod This will output all your l

Re: [PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

2019-01-02 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/2/19 6:07 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: $DISPLAY is set by X11, you shouldn't be setting it. It's one of those things that you only set if you know that you need to set it. I wondered about that. Which desktop are you using? XFCE? Yes. XFCE. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___

Re: [PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

2019-01-02 Thread Ben Koenig
$DISPLAY is set by X11, you shouldn't be setting it. It's one of those things that you only set if you know that you need to set it. Which desktop are you using? XFCE? On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 3:21 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > This my be related to my ssh -X "Could not parse arguments: Cannot open

[PLUG] Setting up nVidia driver on Slackware

2019-01-02 Thread Dick Steffens
This my be related to my ssh -X "Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:" problem. I ran the various SlackBuilds scripts to install the nVidia driver. It all looked normal, like the other installs I've been doing. But, when I try to run nvidia-settings I get this error message: ERROR