can't open nvidia-settings
 

Slackware 14 x64 KDE (kernel 3.10.12)

Nvidia driver 319.49

I can't seem to get nvidia-settings control panel to open. have tried to open it from menu, from icon & from terminal.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Are there any error messages when you start nvidia-settings from the terminal? Dose it halt there and show no GUI window, or does it exit silently?

thank you guanx.

no error message from any attempts at launching it. the only sign of life is after clicking nvidia icon (either from desktop or panel or menu>settings>nvidia x server settings), i get the little bouncing icon that follows the mouse pointer around for about 30 seconds or so.

Please launch it in a terminal this way:Post content of file errors.txt after that or tell us if it's an empty file.

thanks Didier Spaier

the 1st time i entered nvidia-settings 2>errors.txt as root, the GUI appeared! (in a different window, of course)

but after that, nothing. entering nvidia-settings 2>errors.txt as root# or as user$ does nothing; no GUI, no text, nothing.

Make sure your hostname is listed in /etc/hosts. Should be something like: 127.0.0.1 myhostname

For me nvidia-settings would take literally 5 minutes or more to start, until I corrected my /etc/hosts file.

thanks Beelzebud,

but that doesn't do it either.

So, can you please take a look at the previous posts in this thread --

1. no error messages

2. it halts there and shows no GUI window

3. it halts there . . and file errors.txt is empty