i have opensuse 11.0 on dell xps410 win xp sp3 dual boot system. i have
downloaded all nvidia drivers and everything is updatated. the problem
is that when i try to use the nvidia-settings program it pops up a
dialog box saying i need to run ‘nvidia-xconfig’ in root mode from
terminal. i start terminal prog and use ‘su’ to get to root and then run
‘nvidia-xconfig’ as required and receive msg that ‘xorg.conf’ is updated
and to restart server. i even checked the file in /etc/x11/xorg.conf in
the device section and it shows driver as being ‘nvidia’. i restart
system and try again to use ‘nvidia-settings’ and receive same msg again
about running ‘xorg-config’ as root.
want to be able to change resolutions when i need to. some screens come
up to big to choose buttons at bottom. i need 1650 1050 for those and
the screen resolution icon only goes to 1280 1050 etc.
What I did to configure my Nvidia, (which many would say is “bad to do”)
but the easiest way to edit and configure things requiring root
privleges, especially when I know I have more than one thing to do as
root -
I login as root user (of course you have to edit root in Yast -
Security and Users - User and Group Management) change the password
settings and password so that you can login as root.
Yes this is very bad! You can do exactly the same without logging in as
root.
Open a console type sudo nvidia-settings enter root pass. Now you
have it with root permissions. Dead easy and safe!
Geoff
darthroe;1903396 Wrote:
> What I did to configure my Nvidia, (which many would say is “bad to do”)
> but the easiest way to edit and configure things requiring root
> privleges, especially when I know I have more than one thing to do as
> root -
> I login as root user (of course you have to edit root in Yast -
> Security and Users - User and Group Management) change the password
> settings and password so that you can login as root.
>
> Hope this helps.
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