On 08/19/18 13:01, Thomas Letherby wrote:
Typing my password in logs in fine, so it's definitely something
stopping sddm from
displaying the screen, rather than a total failure.
Sorry for the multiple replies to the previous post. But I was thinking about this
issue this evening and I've got another thing you may want to try.
After bringing up KDE go to a konsole window and run nvidia-settings. One menu item
is "X Server Display Configuration". Use "Save to X Configuration
File" to save the
configuration to a file in your home directory.
Edit that file so it only contains the Monitor, Device, and Screen sections. Then
copy that file, as root, to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/98-monitor.conf and reboot.
FWIW, mine on my old acer looks like this....
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 340.107 (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-13) Thu
May 24 22:29:46 PDT 2018
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Chi Mei Optoelectronics corp."
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 59.9
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8600M GS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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