From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZmhX-0005VN-6u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:24:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 161C81C0A5; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4C51C0A5 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8940E8047E for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:21:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:21:07 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-settings over ssh sees my local GPU? Message-ID: <20110623172107.03c230f5@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs27 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/MJNk058nDN38iRUDXR8zc0y"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d43be645b084fac3fbb4b50756cd77df --Sig_/MJNk058nDN38iRUDXR8zc0y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:54:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > My question is about running nvidia-settings. I'm finding that if I > shell into his machine using >=20 > ssh -X -Y -C IP-address >=20 > and run nvidia-settings I get it displayed here, as it should be. The > problem is it is seeing my GTX 465 and not his 8400GS. Looking at the man page, it appears you need to use the -ctrl-display parameter or the $DISPLAY env var. The man page mentions that nvidia-settings queries the X server, which is running locally. It looks like this setting may force it to use another. --=20 Neil Bothwick Of all the people I've met you're certainly one of them --Sig_/MJNk058nDN38iRUDXR8zc0y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk4DZ/kACgkQum4al0N1GQMrUACcCzmZy9CmGqPGxnwgOdvFjhI1 rHwAnA7z5en0hOtF6RVn5kCB9rVLwqYl =ald5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/MJNk058nDN38iRUDXR8zc0y--