[SOLVED] Nvidia Screen settings not kept after reboot

ClisClis · 06-15-2015, 11:30 AM

Hey guys
I am running LMDE2 on my machine.
It has a GTX 970 from nVidia
I had to manually install the drivers from nvidia.com as the repository versions were to old for this chip.
i am now running 346,72 and it worked well from day1.
But since a few days (after some apt-get update/upgrade stuff i guess) the settings i made are not kept after a reboot.
There is not too much configuration, mainly just the order of my 3 screens.
I can configure them in nvidia-settings and apply them. Then everything looks fine.
For the first time i had to save them to the x configuration file (/etc/X11/Xorg.conf).
I tried saving a new one of course and the file gets changed. But after a reboot, the display order would just fall back to default (even if the file content in xorg.conf stays like it should).

Any hints?

John VV · 06-15-2015, 12:48 PM

you need to be root to save this file
/etc/X11/Xorg.conf

a normal user can not write to that file

seeing as you are using "apt-get " i am ASSUMING !!! this UNKNOWN operating system is Debian

Code:

su -
nvidia-settings
---- or this ----
sudo nvidia-settings

and SAVE as root to the xorg.conf ( there is a button in the gui )

ClisClis · 06-15-2015, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

seeing as you are using "apt-get " i am ASSUMING !!! this UNKNOWN operating system is Debian

Nice try but as stated in the second line of my post, i am running LMDE2 (Linux Mint Debian Edition 2).

Anyway: I should have stated that i did run nvidia-settings as root too. The file date did change to the time when i saved it and the values are actually written to the file.
I also took the preview of the conf nvidia-settings shows and copied it with nano.

When i first configured my system, I did it exactly like this and it was fine for about 1 month.
But now it wont work anymore.

And i also tried creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and save the conf there.

ClisClis · 06-16-2015, 07:38 AM

No more ideas?

I also tried reinstalling the drivers...

Today i tried saving the config again and i saw this in the cmd line

Code:

Package xorg-server was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xorg-server.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xorg-server' found

The file still gets updated, but maybe some one more experienced than me can read more from this message than I

EDIT:
It works!!
I had to open Cinnamons Display Settings (simply search for Display in the launchers searchbar) and then reapply the settings there. They were correct but i just changed them and changed it back.

John VV · 06-16-2015, 11:16 AM

i do not use mint

but

did you uninstall and or remove the Nouveau driver before installing the Nvidia.run ?
and did you rebuild the boot image after the nouveau was removed ?

see:

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/176
http://mintguide.org/system/304-inst...inux-mint.html
http://www.yourownlinux.com/2015/01/...-graphics.html

bobbiescap · 06-17-2015, 12:03 AM

This is a common issue with the way the factory software creates the menu entry. If you are using Cinnamon, you can use the menu editor to create a custom command, where you put gksu into the call so if nvidia-settings is what is currently being called, change it to gksu nvidia-settings. Then you will get a little pop up windows asking you for your password. Maybe Mate has a similar gui to access the functions or you may find a handy command line tutorial if you are using Mate or another desktop gui.

Please let me know if you are not sure how to do that and I will explain better. I went from Debian to Mint because of Cinnamon and I used the LMDE offering, which is based on the Debian testing repos, rather than Ubuntu. I'm going back to Debian now that I know that I can use Cinnamon with it, some of us just like GUIs that are functional but with a few more bells and whistles than say, LXDE, which I have used extensively and think is great on a lower specced machine, but without the resource overhead of KDE.

ClisClis · 06-17-2015, 12:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

i do not use mint

but

did you uninstall and or remove the Nouveau driver before installing the Nvidia.run ?
and did you rebuild the boot image after the nouveau was removed ?

see:

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/176
http://mintguide.org/system/304-inst...inux-mint.html
http://www.yourownlinux.com/2015/01/...-graphics.html

THere were some questions about rebuilding stuff when i reinstalled. Dont know if this was called nouveau but it might.
But since the problem is solved anyway, i wont reinstall another time just to see how it was called

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobbiescap

This is a common issue with the way the factory software creates the menu entry. If you are using Cinnamon, you can use the menu editor to create a custom command, where you put gksu into the call so if nvidia-settings is what is currently being called, change it to gksu nvidia-settings. Then you will get a little pop up windows asking you for your password. Maybe Mate has a similar gui to access the functions or you may find a handy command line tutorial if you are using Mate or another desktop gui.

Please let me know if you are not sure how to do that and I will explain better. I went from Debian to Mint because of Cinnamon and I used the LMDE offering, which is based on the Debian testing repos, rather than Ubuntu. I'm going back to Debian now that I know that I can use Cinnamon with it, some of us just like GUIs that are functional but with a few more bells and whistles than say, LXDE, which I have used extensively and think is great on a lower specced machine, but without the resource overhead of KDE.

I do not really see what you are describing.
Isnt this just for starting nvidia-settings with root permissions? If so, this will do de same like just starting it with sudo. But your way is a way to always start it with those permissions right?

This wasnt the problem though as described in my edit a few posts above.