On 1/8/19 8:22 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
I'm trying to figure out what's broken here and I just can't see it.
The subject of this thread was something about problems logging in.
Turned out to be an issue with having the wrong nvidia driver installed.
I should have started a new thread. I'll do
I'm trying to figure out what's broken here and I just can't see it.
The subject of this thread was something about problems logging in.
Turned out to be an issue with having the wrong nvidia driver installed.
And now you say that X launches the nvidia-settings program runs as
expected.
Looks
On 1/7/19 3:37 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
Wait a second why is nvidia-settings trying to create an xorg.conf
file? I thought the program was nvidia-xconfig ..
It occurred to me that if I have a correct nVidia setup on my Ubuntu
machine, which has a very similar monitor setup, I could compare
On 1/7/19 3:37 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
Wait a second why is nvidia-settings trying to create an xorg.conf
file? I thought the program was nvidia-xconfig ..
Are you running nvidia-settings from a graphical terminal? With X running?
Yes. It's available from the Applications > Settings menu
Wait a second why is nvidia-settings trying to create an xorg.conf
file? I thought the program was nvidia-xconfig ..
Are you running nvidia-settings from a graphical terminal? With X running?
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 3:15 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 1/7/19 2:59 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> >
On 1/7/19 2:59 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
the blacklist file prevents Nouveau from loading, but if you need to double
check that it actually worked you use 'lsmod'
I pipe the output to grep to shorten the list:
$ lsmod |grep nouveau
root@ENU-2:~# lsmod | grep nouveau
root@ENU-2:~#
This will
the blacklist file prevents Nouveau from loading, but if you need to double
check that it actually worked you use 'lsmod'
I pipe the output to grep to shorten the list:
$ lsmod |grep nouveau
This will output a single line if it finds the nouveau kernel module, or do
nothing if nouveau is not
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
On 1/6/19 12:51 AM, Ben Koenig wrote:
No, that looks fine. Don't delete them.
Most of those files should have been replaced when you reinstalled the
packages as suggested by Ed. All you need to do is reboot so that nouveau
loads properly and everything should be set.
Reboot, see what it gives
On 1/5/19 9:46 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
On Slackware does run level 3 start sshd? Just making sure so he doesn't
kill a secondary login.
Also are you sure none of the libGL and glx stuff is part of mesa or X? I'm
used to package managers doing the right thing, and if I have to touch a
system
On 1/5/19 8:30 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
Hello Dick,
The other replies have some good ideas, but lets go back to basics since
you can ssh in. I do not think there is a need to reinstall from
scratch just yet.
When you leave the login manager, X tries to load all the other stuff
and can't, so
On Slackware does run level 3 start sshd? Just making sure so he doesn't
kill a secondary login.
Also are you sure none of the libGL and glx stuff is part of mesa or X? I'm
used to package managers doing the right thing, and if I have to touch a
system .so that usually means a third party
On 1/5/19 7:52 PM, wes wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 6:18 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> Would the
>> solution there of deleting all .serverauthXXX and .Xauthority files as
>> root be something I should do here?
>>
>
> Yes, you should try this. Also look for a .ICEauthority file to delete or
>
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 6:18 PM Dick Steffens wrote:
> Would the
> solution there of deleting all .serverauthXXX and .Xauthority files as
> root be something I should do here?
>
Yes, you should try this. Also look for a .ICEauthority file to delete or
rename.
-wes
I need an email app for my phone that doesn't force top posting. Gah!
Anyways. Ok you can login to VT2. Startx doesn't work. Could be the display
manager is locking a resource you need.
startxfce4: X server already running on display :1
Is a clue. Could maybe only need to tell it to use display
On 1/5/19 5:12 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
If your goal is learning then it's worth it. If your goal was just having
it work I'm not sure you would have picked Slackware as your distro so I'm
going with learning.
A little of both. I've been using the easy to install and run stuff for
something
If your goal is learning then it's worth it. If your goal was just having
it work I'm not sure you would have picked Slackware as your distro so I'm
going with learning.
Being able to login via ssh means the password isn't corrupted. Being able
to type a username probably means the keyboard input
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