On 1/5/19 8:30 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
<...> (stuff I did yesterday)
now comment out the nouveau blacklist in
/etc/modprobe.d/BLACKLIST-nouveau.conf:
# Do not load the kernel nouveau dri module, since it interferes with both
# the nv and binary nvidia drivers.
#blacklist nouveau
(once you re-install nvidia, you will need to blacklist the nouveau
module again)
reboot. Once the console comes back up, log in as regular user and
startx
note any errors on screen
Nothing I noticed.
and in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 153.273] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
I see from
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/what-happened-to-xf86-video-fbdev-917338/
that it's a don't care.
If the DE starts up, do the mouse, keyboard work work? Any startup errors?
Mouse and keyboard work.
nvidia-settings also works, and I was able to change screens so that the
smaller monitor is the primary display and is on the left, and the
larger monitor is on the right, and the cursor goes from the left
monitor to the right monitor in the expected way.
depending on your use case, the nouveau driver may be plenty good
enough. If not, reinstall the nvidia-390 drivers from Slackbuilds.org if
nouveau works.
I recommend sticking with runlevel 3 until everything is configured to
your liking. X is a weird beast. best not to jab it with a stick.
It looks like it's working, so I'll go back to run level 4 and make sure.
Working mostly, but the /etc/X11/xorg.conf I saved from nvidia-settings
didn't hold. It looks like it's not using the nvidia driver. When
attempting to run nvidia-settings I get the error message:
ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run `nvidia-settings
--help` for usage information.
I note that you said above that I'd have to blacklist nouveau again. I
have the file
/etc/modprobe.d/BLACKLIST-nouveau.conf
What else do I need to do to blacklist nouveau again?
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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