[Klug-general] xorg woes

[Paul Littlefield]

On 17/12/14 18:00, Paul Lenton wrote:
> I did notice on the verbose output that a group called nvidia-persistenced is being created with a sudo command but I can't figure out how to change the group to be owned by me without meaning that my user account has access to startup scripts.

Seriously?! That is amazingly weird and a bit worrying that there is that going on.

Not for me...

$ sudo grep -i 'nvidia' /etc/group
[sudo] password:
$

...nothing, sorry.

> If Debian 8 wasn't so painfully close to release (hopefully!) I'd drop xubuntu and be a Debian boy again. I got Ubuntu because I wanted an easy life, not constant xorg problems! Arrggh.

Here is my xorg.conf

I tried uploading it to pastebin but that's broken today.

(sigh)


# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 346.22  (buildmeister at swio-display-x64-rhel04-12)  Tue Dec  2 11:26:02 PST 2014


Section "ServerLayout"
     Identifier     "Layout0"
     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

     # generated from default
     Identifier     "Mouse0"
     Driver         "mouse"
     Option         "Protocol" "auto"
     Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
     Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

     # generated from default
     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
     Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
     Identifier     "Monitor0"
     VendorName     "Unknown"
     ModelName      "Unknown"
     HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
     VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
     Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
     Identifier     "Device0"
     Driver         "nvidia"
     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
     Identifier     "Screen0"
     Device         "Device0"
     Monitor        "Monitor0"
     DefaultDepth    24
     SubSection     "Display"
         Depth       24
     EndSubSection
EndSection


Sorry if I missed it, but what version of Ubuntu are you running?

I am sure I am not new in saying that NVIDIA has a long track record of being a royal pain in the arse (am I right, or am I right?) but I cannot fault the display on my Samsung TV.

It is pixel and colour perfect and plays everything I throw at it.. OpenGL Games, FullHD MKVs, XBMC, MythtV and Minecraft Java... perfectly, with no crashes.

What can I say?

:-/


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