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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:21:07PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:54:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > My question is about running nvidia-settings. I'm finding that if I |
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> > shell into his machine using |
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> > ssh -X -Y -C IP-address |
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> > and run nvidia-settings I get it displayed here, as it should be. The |
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> > problem is it is seeing my GTX 465 and not his 8400GS. |
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> Looking at the man page, it appears you need to use the -ctrl-display |
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> parameter or the $DISPLAY env var. The man page mentions that |
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> nvidia-settings queries the X server, which is running locally. It looks |
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> like this setting may force it to use another. |
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as neil wrote, it is |
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nvidia-settings -c :0 |
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nvidia-settings connects to the remote xserver to communicate |
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with the graphics card (through a special nvidia xtenstion to the x |
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protocol), so you need to be able to access the remote xserver, if you |
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are logged in as the user running the xserver, you should be ok |
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yoy |
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