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travnick

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 75

[SOLVED] nvidia-settings GUI does not appear

I have strange issue.

I'm using the newest nvidia driver (331.38-1) with my GeForce GT 240M.
Everything used to work some time ago (a month, two or so) but today I've tried to configure my second screen attached to laptop.

Unfortunately nvidia-settings GUI does not appear. It runs in console but there are no error messages, warnings. I have no clue what's going on.
Any idea how to investigate the issue?

What's more I'm not able to configure my second screen with kde system settings. Fortunately xrandr works, but ... hey! I want to do that with gui.

Last edited by travnick (2014-02-12 16:24:07)

Rexilion

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Registered: 2013-12-23

Posts: 784

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-settings GUI does not appear

I take it it hangs?

Try doing it with strace (pacman -S strace).

strace nvidia-settings

Post the log so we can see where it hangs.

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travnick

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 75

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-settings GUI does not appear

It's strange, today it works ...
I tried restarting my laptop but it didn't help before. Probably one of the update helped.

Rexilion

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Registered: 2013-12-23

Posts: 784

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-settings GUI does not appear

You can check your hypotheses by consulting /var/log/pacman.log.

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travnick

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 75

Re: [SOLVED] nvidia-settings GUI does not appear

To be honest I'm not going on investigate all kde package updates (two days ago there was kde 4.12.2 update) and others. It's too much time to waste with no valuable result.