[mythtv-users] Nvida card choice for mythtv and gaming

[James Abernathy]

> On May 12, 2020, at 3:58 PM, BP <lists at qucae.com> wrote:
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> On 5/12/20 11:44 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
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>> And where do I find the Mate settings your were talking about??
>> Jim A
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> I don't remember everything I eventually did.  Lots of memories of editing config files trying to make Xfce work muddying my recollection. Nothing obvious in my .bash_history either.
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> I know my xorg.conf is set to only use the display mode (resolution/refresh freq) I wanted.  For Mate, I might have only used the Preferences > Display app to set it and it worked right that easily.  I do have a ~/.config/monitors.xml file which has the desired setting in it and I know Mate does use that file.  A quick google search implies that the Mate display settings app will create it.
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> The only reason I went with Mate is because I hate Unity and Gnome3 and it's what I generally use in my Ubuntu virtual machines since it works well without hardware acceleration.  If there's something you're used to using other than Xfce I'd just test using the window manager's display setting, then unplugging the monitor and plugging it back in to see if it resets.
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I think the problem has something to do with the fact that xscreensaver and Display settings are both installed and you have to make sure that you turn off the display management power settings and screen locking in both places. I’ve made all those changes; now I’ll test a bunch of cases.

Jim A