nvidia-settings error while changing resolution and refresh rate

[Alen Masic]

In Ubuntu 14.04 I can't change resolution or refresh rate using nvidia-settings (have no problems while doing this from "Displays").
When I click "Apply" nvidia-settings crash so I opened it in terminal and got this error:

The program 'nvidia-settings' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 544 error_code 2 request_code 157 minor_code 25)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

I'm using this version of nvidia-settings

nvidia-settings:
  Installed: 331.20-0ubuntu8
  Candidate: 331.20-0ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 331.20-0ubuntu8 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com.ba/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     304.116-0ubuntu1~xedgers~trusty1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mark (mark-k)]

This is probably a duplicate of bug 1273652.

A workaround is to manually download the nvidia-settings-304 package from the 12.04 repository and install that, which works okay for me on 14.10 at least.