Thats how you do it @Goalkeeper!!!
Noooo. you make me look bad OP. You downloaded the iso and then started out to carry out the challenge.
Sorry, but I have to keep this train going, Iām too afraid of @AnotherDev. He does not call 911 you knowā¦
Force Composition Pipeline
does it for me on loinux. this is what it generates:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 418.56
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "BenQ GL2460"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 780"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1"
Option "metamodes" "HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On}, DP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On}"
Option "SLI" "Off"
Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Not sure if this will help on BSD
That Nvidia settings manager is exactly what Iām looking after, that fixes screen tearing on my linux machine too. For what ever reason I canāt open it up either on MATE or KDE. Iāll try to edit the configuration file manually little later.
Anyway, some progress:
-
Urxvt works, tough I have to run
xrdb ~/.Xresources
after rebooting the system. Have to do some digging, Itās been while since I last time messed with Xresources and configured Urxvt. I actually thought my old .Xresourses config file was breaking things, but happy to notice thatās not the case. Dat lovely color theme tho? - KDE dark theme. I donāt bother to rice that much since Iām going to bulldoze this thing to the ground sooner or later.
- Waifu pape. Keeps normal people at safe distance.
To-do: Urxvt can only be launched from terminal, hence why I have Konsole running too. Have to set urxvt as default terminal so that I can open it with simple keyboard shortcut.
Iāve speant barely anytime on my GhostBSD machine since installing (Work & family take priority) but @redgek suggestion fixed the screen tearing for me too.
I did discover that the nvidia driver install is tied to the Linux core 6 packages that are installed. I updated my packages to c7 which uninstalled the c6 packages - and the nvidia drivers along with them
Easily fixed once I realized what had happened, but a WTF moment after a rebooting the day after doing it and forgetting what Iād done!
These are the moments that are most informative learning experiences for me. While at the uni I read f ton of academic journals and articles, but for what ever reason Iām really lazy to read any software documentation when tinkering with things. I will eventually read and realize the answer was there the whole time and I just used two hours of banging rocks together.
As a side note, I started to look up some used Thinkpads yesterday. This Asus laptop really isnāt fun to play with, and I canāt justify to myself for upgrading ram or SSD to this if the damn thing canāt even output 1440p resolution. T440p looks nice, with quad core cpu and ability to put two SSDs in that could be really nice machine, but I couldnāt find any well priced units from Ebay. I did find some x230 machines tough.
Regarding the tearing and nvidiaās control panel acting up, is there an option along the lines of āfull screen repaintsā in the default KDE display settings?
I checked and there is. Unfortunately it does not fix the tearing. My best bet is to just tinker with Nvidia drivers and try to the tearing that way.
Well I got side tracked and installed Manjaro to my desktop, and under linux I was able to fix the screen tearing and stuttering with a combination of @redgekās config, my own config file that I was able to generate with nvidia-settings and some some healthy amount of frustration and screaming at the computer.
Iāve also been messing around with GhostBSD a little. I tried to figure out how to install Discord and Spotify, but the guides I tried didnāt work. Then again those guides are for FreeBSD, and I have no idea if they are supposed to even work since GhostBSD is TrueOS based. Or thatās what Wikipedia says. GhostBSD website is only mentioning FreeBSD. Most likely reason is I have no idea what Iām doing, but hey, this is a learning experience.
Yesterday I was cleaning my old room at my parents old apartment. They had this old HP Probook 4320s in living room, serving as a HTPC since they donāt have smart TV. Well they didnāt have any use for the HTPC anymore, so they asked if I have any use for it. Well, I can think at least one thing what to do with this machine.
Letās install FreeBSD!
I donāt have much time today for this, so this might have to wait until weekend. But still itās nice to have new hardware to play with.
I also have some old 2004 Fujitsu laptop with Intel Pentium M and 512mb ram in it. I could dust off my tinfoil hat and install OpenBSD. If I can replace the dead HDD with SD card.
Well I totally lied, I did install it.
Letās see if I manage to configure this and get KDE or i3 running. It wasnāt promising sign that I couldnāt even sudo after I got freeBSD installed.
Started playing with with FreeBSD again today. I tried using this video guide, but unfortunately I couldnāt get KDE to work. I have to investigate whatās going on. While following that guide I feel that guy left some things out.
Currently the installation flashes the command line login screen.
You can do it @Even747-San!
Is sddm
installed?
If so, does /etc/rc.conf
have sddm_enable="YES"
?
Is your user part of the video, wheel, and/or operator group?
It is, and I checked rc.conf
and sddm is enabled. Still have the flashing screen
Wheel
Graphics drivers installed?
X.org installed?
Does /var/log/Xorg.0.log
say anything?
Have you generated a X.org file?
Xorg -configure
sudo mv xorg.conf.new /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf
Capitalize the X in the first command and only use 1 hyphen, I believe.
My lucky guess is the graphics drivers are not installed. X.org is installed.
If I have extra time tomorrow Iāll reinstall the whole thing and try installing graphics drivers and test your other suggestions.
I was supposed to be in bed hour ago. Fug.
KDE is quite large package, maybe I should use VM instead and save snapshots on regular intervals if I f up something
Anyway, after I get KDE and SDDM packages installed I go to bed and continue later.
Just status update:
Got tired of playing with my laptop. Itās probs almost 10 years old already so I wouldnāt be surprised if the GPU in that thing is cooked or something like that. In any case I didnāt get KDE to work on that machine, so Iāll try VM next.
Got FreeBSD working in Virtualbox and took snapshot from the base system. Now I donāt need to reinstall everything all the time if I make mistakes during the journey.