[Klug-general] xorg woes

[jwmartnet .]

On 18 December 2014 at 09:56, Paul Littlefield <info at paully.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>

The persistence daemon is for situations where X isn't continuously
running but it is desirable for the kernel module is persistently
loaded - IIUC:
http://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/driver-persistence/index.html
So I'd guess you don't need it and should disable the init script for it.

James.




> 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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