nvidia diagnostics for JR from Bill

root@laptop:~# journalctl -b --no-pager _COMM=gdm-x-session
-- Logs begin at Thu 2017-12-28 19:50:37 CET, end at Tue 2018-01-02 20:11:48 CET. --
-- No entries --
root@laptop:~# nvidia-installer -v |grep version
nvidia-installer:  version 384.98  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-02)
root@laptop:~# uname -a
Linux laptop.my.desk 4.14.8-300.fc27.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 20 19:00:18 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@laptop:~# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 384.98  (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-02)  Thu Oct 26 15:56:05 PDT 2017

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

root@laptop:~# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/: Is a directory
root@laptop:~# cd /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
root@laptop:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d# ls
00-keyboard.conf
root@laptop:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d# cat 00-keyboard.conf
# Written by systemd-localed(8), read by systemd-localed and Xorg. It's
# probably wise not to edit this file manually. Use localectl(1) to
# instruct systemd-localed to update it.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option "XkbVariant" "euro"
EndSection
root@laptop:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d#