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Title: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: Luxer Rexul on August 28, 2019, 02:14:33 AM
I'm new to linux. And was trying to prevent screen tearing with nvidia settings. My gpu is Geforce 1050ti. I selected the wrong xorg file and now i'm stuck with just a wallpaper and no xfce loading. The xorg.conf I selected was /usr/share/xresprobe. I also tried to purge nvidia drivers with "sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia"

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
Title: Re: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: Jerry on August 28, 2019, 04:44:41 AM
Revert back to what you started with. Then search the forums for compton, should be the second result.

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Title: Re: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: Luxer Rexul on August 28, 2019, 05:37:27 AM
I ran the live image of linux lite, and replaced the xorg.conf with the original. And logged in and ctrl-alt-f2 ran sudo apt install [xserver-xorg-video-nouveau]. Logged back in. And xfce is still not rendering. Not sure what is happening.
Title: Re: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: Jerry on August 28, 2019, 06:11:12 AM
So you've already installed and configured compton?

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Title: Re: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: Luxer Rexul on August 28, 2019, 06:21:15 AM
I have compton installed just not added to startup. Don't know how to add it to start because xfce is not loading (just a wallpaper). Is the a way to add it to start up by pressing ctrl-alt-f2 and running a command?
 
Title: Re: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: Luxer Rexul on August 28, 2019, 06:22:28 AM
Sorry for the confusion I'm new to linux and not very experienced....
Title: Re: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: Jerry on August 28, 2019, 06:38:17 AM
http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/how-to-switch-to-compton-for-beautiful-tear-free-compositing-in-xfce/#set-compton-to-auto-start

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Title: Re: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: Luxer Rexul on August 28, 2019, 06:45:30 AM
I'm having no luck today.... Now when I boot I get busybox initramfs and can't get pass the screen. Think I would just be better off to reinstall at this point. Unless you have a solution for it. And i can follow the link to fix it.
Title: Re: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: Jerry on August 28, 2019, 10:18:12 AM
Reinstall. All part of the learning process.

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Title: Re: Selected wrong xorg.conf file for nvidia screen tearing
Post by: firenice03 on August 28, 2019, 12:11:49 PM
Reinstall. All part of the learning process.

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and.... make a backup/restore point :) should you need to fix again later
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