I was attempting to explore my video card settings yesterday and ran nvidia-xconfig from termal, which didn’t actually launch any configurations. It did however mess up my Xorg settings so now I can’t boot into KDE. When I try running startx, I get:
xinit failed. /usr/bin/Xorg is not setuid, maybe that's the reason?
How do I fix this?
Thanks.
I’m assuming this is because running the nvidia-xconfig command replaced the intel driver with the nvidia driver in the xserver settings. I just need to know how to switch it back. Here is my Xorg.0.log:
927.337] Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
927.337] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
927.337] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
927.337] (==) Log file: "/home/xxxx/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Dec 14 10:49:37 2015
927.337] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
927.337] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
927.337] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
927.338] (==) ServerLayout "Layout0"
927.338] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
927.338] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
927.338] (**) | |-->Device "Device0"
927.338] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
927.338] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
927.338] (==) Automatically adding devices
927.338] (==) Automatically enabling devices
927.338] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
927.338] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi" does not exist.
927.338] Entry deleted from font path.
927.339] (==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/ghostscript/,
/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/,
built-ins
927.339] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
927.339] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
927.339] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
927.339] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
927.339] (II) Loader magic: 0x80dd00
927.339] (II) Module ABI versions:
927.339] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
927.339] X.Org Video Driver: 19.0
927.339] X.Org XInput driver : 21.0
927.339] X.Org Server Extension : 9.0
927.340] (++) using VT number 1
927.340] (II) systemd-logind: logind integration requires -keeptty and -keeptty was not provided, disabling logind integration
927.340] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
927.343] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:0116:1028:04b6 rev 9, Mem @ 0xf1400000/4194304, 0xe0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00004000/64
927.343] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
927.343] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
927.345] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
927.345] compiled for 1.17.2, module version = 1.0.0
927.345] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 9.0
927.345] (==) AIGLX enabled
927.345] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
927.345] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
927.345] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
927.345] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
927.345] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
927.346] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 352.63 Sat Nov 7 20:29:25 PST 2015
927.346] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
927.346] (EE)
Fatal server error:
927.346] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: Operation not permitted
927.346] (EE)
927.346] (EE)
startx doesn’t work as user because of missing privileges.
Run it as root, or make /usr/bin/Xorg suid root.
But that’s a security risk.
Delete the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf .
Oh, and if you have a hybrid intel+nvidia system (“Optimus”), you should not install the standard nvidia driver, it doesn’t support this and breaks the intel driver.
Ok, that worked. Thanks.
If you want to adjust NVIDIA settings the program is nvidia-settings
That returns the following error:
ERROR: libnvidia-gtk3.so.352.63: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libnvidia-gtk3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libnvidia-gtk2.so.352.63: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libnvidia-gtk2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Are you on an Optimus system?? That may not work on Optimus.