Re: [SOLVED] - Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 01:15:48PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > Felix Miata wrote on 07/23/2017 08:26 PM: > > > > >> I tried this solution (for Arch; I saw some posts about Debian, but nothing > >> that seemed to be a definitive solution): > > > >>

[SOLVED] - Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-25 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 07/23/2017 08:26 PM: > >> I tried this solution (for Arch; I saw some posts about Debian, but nothing >> that seemed to be a definitive solution): > >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Setting_the_framebuffer_resolution > [material elided] > The

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:20:08PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > You'd need some sort of system logging daemon. Something which runs with > > the privileges necessary to write to the log file, and which can accept > > log messages from unprivileged

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:20:08PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > You'd need some sort of system logging daemon. Something which runs with > the privileges necessary to write to the log file, and which can accept > log messages from unprivileged processes, perhaps by listening on a UNIX > socket.

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 08:59:56AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: I don't often here fail to find a current /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I think what's happening is the one in .local/share/ is getting copied to /var/log/ so that it remains

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > I don't often here fail to find a current /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I think what's > happening is the one in .local/share/ is getting copied to /var/log/ so that > it > remains available in the location people historically expect, where

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-23 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2017-07-23 17:52 (UTC-0600): > D. R. Evans wrote: >> I am 99+% sure that the proprietary driver is being used, because the screen >> looks quite different during the boot sequence, and slightly different once I > I have discovered that if I open a console after switching

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-23 Thread David Wright
On Sun 23 Jul 2017 at 17:52:19 (-0600), D. R. Evans wrote: > D. R. Evans wrote on 07/22/2017 11:48 AM: > > > I am 99+% sure that the proprietary driver is being used, because the screen > > looks quite different during the boot sequence, and slightly different once > > I > > I have discovered

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-23 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 07/22/2017 11:48 AM: > I am 99+% sure that the proprietary driver is being used, because the screen > looks quite different during the boot sequence, and slightly different once I I have discovered that if I open a console after switching to the NVIDIA driver, the text is

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
Curt composed on 2017-07-22 15:58 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> D. R. Evans composed on 2017-07-22 13:06 (UTC-0600): >>> Reco wrote: grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log >>> [HN:~] grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log >>> grep:

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Curt
On 2017-07-22, Felix Miata wrote: > D. R. Evans composed on 2017-07-22 13:06 (UTC-0600): > >> Reco wrote: > >>> grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log > >> [HN:~] grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log >> grep: /home/n7dr/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log:

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2017-07-22 13:06 (UTC-0600): > Reco wrote: >> grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log > [HN:~] grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log > grep: /home/n7dr/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log: No such file or directory > [HN:~] > I don't know why he

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Hans wrote on 07/22/2017 11:55 AM: > Maybe try to add a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf (ask google, how it has to look), > and in it set the driver "nvidia". > nvidia-xconfig created such a file, and the driver in it is set to "nvidia", so I think that is indeed the confirmation I was looking for.

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread D. R. Evans
Reco wrote on 07/22/2017 12:37 PM: > grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log [HN:~] grep -i glx ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log grep: /home/n7dr/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[0-9]*.log: No such file or directory [HN:~] Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans signature.asc

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 11:48:42 -0600 "D. R. Evans" wrote: > As my old thread has been hijacked, I thought that I'd better start a new one. > > Teemu Likonen wrote on 07/17/2017 03:09 PM: > > D. R. Evans [2017-07-17 14:19:32-06] wrote: > > > >> Beginning a couple

Re: video driver - new thread

2017-07-22 Thread Hans
Maybe try to add a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf (ask google, how it has to look), and in it set the driver "nvidia". Make sure, the nouveau kernel driver is blacklisted. BTW: Is the proprietrary driver compatible with latest xserver-xorg again? Best regards Hans > Thanks to people for their